登入選單
返回Google圖書搜尋
Transnational Popular Psychology and the Global Self-Help Industry
Daniel NehringEmmanuel AlvaradoEric C. HendriksDylan Kerrigan
其他書名
The Politics of Contemporary Social Change
出版Springer, 2016-04-08
主題Psychology / Applied PsychologyPsychology / PersonalityPsychology / GeneralPsychology / Social PsychologySocial Science / Sociology / GeneralMedical / GeneralSelf-Help / Personal Growth / GeneralSocial Science / Developing & Emerging Countries
ISBN02303708619780230370869
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=HaXtCwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBookSAMPLE
註釋Self-help books aim to empower their readers and deliver happiness and personal fulfilment but do they really live up to this? This book offers a fresh perspective on self-help culture and popular psychology. Research on this subject matter has generally focused on the USA and other societies in the Global Northwest. In contrast, this book explores the production, circulation and consumption of self-help books from an innovative transnational perspective. Case studies on Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, the People's Republic of China, the United Kingdom and the USA explore the roles which self-help's therapeutic narratives of self and social relationships play in the contemporary world. In this context, the book questions the extent to which self-help fulfils its promise of individual autonomy and contentment. At the same time, it addresses debates about contemporary processes of globalisation as sources of cultural standardization.