The psychological mystique

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The psychological mystique

Stewart Justman

(Rethinking theory)

Northwestern University Press, 1998

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 142-179) and index

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This text weighs the influence of psychology on culture, traces the therapeutic model to its roots, and examines the connection between psychology and the marketing of goods and ideas. The author finds that the influence of psychology has saturated contemporary life both public and private. The book tracks the expansion of the therapeutic project from its beginnings in Locke and considers reflections on and of psychology in a number of authors, including Orwell, Conrad and Dostoevsky.

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