03648nam 22007815 450 991025467460332120240718200330.09780230370869023037086110.1057/9780230370869(CKB)3710000000633387(SSID)ssj0001648260(PQKBManifestationID)16415435(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001648260(PQKBWorkID)14795618(PQKB)10384214(DE-He213)978-0-230-37086-9(MiAaPQ)EBC4719913(Perlego)3484583(EXLCZ)99371000000063338720160405d2016 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtccrTransnational Popular Psychology and the Global Self-Help Industry The Politics of Contemporary Social Change /by Daniel Nehring, Emmanuel Alvarado, Eric C. Hendriks, Dylan Kerrigan1st ed. 2016.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2016.1 online resource (XI, 198 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9781349596379 134959637X 9780230370852 0230370853 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 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, Mexico, the People's Republic of China, the UK 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 political change under transnational processes of cultural standardization.Clinical health psychologyPersonalityDifference (Psychology)PsychologyCommunity psychologyEconomic developmentHealth PsychologyPersonality and Differential PsychologyBehavioral Sciences and PsychologyCommunity PsychologyDevelopment StudiesClinical health psychology.Personality.Difference (Psychology)Psychology.Community psychology.Economic development.Health Psychology.Personality and Differential Psychology.Behavioral Sciences and Psychology.Community Psychology.Development Studies.158/.9Nehring Danielauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1036011Alvarado Emmanuelauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autHendriks Eric Cauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autKerrigan Dylanauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autBOOK9910254674603321Transnational Popular Psychology and the Global Self-Help Industry2456076UNINA