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Saving the Modern Soul

Saving the

Modern Soul

Therapy, Emotions, and

the Culture of Self-Help

Eva Illouz

University of California Press

Berkeley Los Angeles London

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Illouz, Eva, 1961 – .

Saving the modern soul : therapy, emotions, and the culture of

self-help / Eva Illouz.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

isbn : 978-0-520-22446-9 (cloth : alk. paper)

isbn : 978-0-520-25373-5 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Social values — United States. 2. Psychoanalysis and culture —

United States. 3. Psychotherapy — Social aspects — United States.

4. Emotions — Social aspects — United States. 5. Social norms —

United States. I. Title. II. Title: Culture of self-help.

HN90.M6I35 2007

306.4'613 — dc22

2007007631

Manufactured in the United States of America

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10987654321

The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of

ansi/niso z39.48 – 1992 ( r 1997) ( Permanence of Paper ).