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Therapeutic Worlds - Popular Psychology and the Sociocultural Organisation of Intimate Life (Paperback)
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Therapeutic Worlds - Popular Psychology and the Sociocultural Organisation of Intimate Life (Paperback)
Series: Therapeutic Cultures
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This book builds a fresh perspective on therapeutic narratives of
intimate life. Focusing on the question of how popular psychology
organises everyday experiences of intimacy, its argument is
grounded in qualitative research in Trinidad in the Anglophone
Caribbean. Against the backdrop of Trinidad's colonial and
postcolonial history, the authors map the development of
therapeutic institutions and popular therapeutic practices and
explore how transnationally mobile, commercial forms of popular
psychology, mostly originating in the Global North, have taken root
in Trinidadian society through online social networks, self-help
books, and other media. In this sense, the book adds to social
research on the transnational spread of a digital attention economy
and its participation in the proliferation of popular psychological
discourse. Drawing on in-depth interviews with self-help readers,
the book considers how popular psychology organises their everyday
experiences of intimate life. It argues that the proliferation of
self-help media contributes to the psychologisation of intimate
relationships and obscures the social dimensions of intimacy in
terms of gender, race, ethnicity, and other social structures and
inequalities. At the same time, the book draws on anthropological
arguments about the colonisation of consciousness in the Global
South to interpret the insertion of transnationally mobile popular
psychology into Trinidadian society. An innovative contribution to
scholarship on therapeutic cultures, which explores the widely
under-researched dissemination of popular psychology in the Global
South, the book adds to a sociological understanding of the ways in
which therapeutic narratives of self and intimate relationships
come to be incorporated into everyday experience. As such, it will
appeal to scholars of cultural studies, anthropology, and the
sociology of gender, sexuality, families, and personal life.
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