Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other authors / contributors: | Alvarado, Emmanuel, author.
Hendriks, Eric C., author.
Kerrigan, Dylan, author.
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| ISBN: | 9780230370869
0230370861
0230370853
9780230370852
9780230370852
9781349596379
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| Digital file characteristics: | text file PDF
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 19, 2016).
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| Summary: | Self-help books aim to empower their readers and deliver happiness and personal fulfillment 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 fulfills its promise of individual autonomy and contentment. At the same time, it addresses debates about contemporary processes of globalisation as sources of cultural standardization.
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| Other form: | Print version: Nehring, Daniel. Transnational popular psychology and the global self-help industry. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 9780230370852
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| Standard no.: | 10.1057/9780230370869
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