Fool's Paradise

副标题: The Unreal World of Pop Psychology

ISBN: 9781566636285

出版社: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher

出版年: 2005-09-25

页数: 276

定价: USD 27.50

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

Award-winning essayist Stewart Justman traces the inspiration of the pop psychology movement to the utopianism of the 1960s and argues that it consistently misuses the rhetoric that grew out of the civil rights movement. Speaking as it does in the name of our right to happiness, pop psychology promises liberation from all that interferes with our power to create the selves we want. In so doing, Mr. Justman writes, it not only defies reality but corrodes the traditions and attachments that give depth and richness to human life.