Control and Consolation in American Culture and Politics: Rhetoric of Therapy

Introduction On Therapy and the Therapeutic Perspectives on the Therapeutic The Therapeutic History Inventing and Disciplining the Modern Self Family Therapies From the White House to the Hood The Support Group Nation The Therapeutics of Feminism From Self-Esteem to Suicide The New Age of Post-Marxism Conclusion Antidotes to the Therpeutic Hegemony