Bringing together studies of therapeutic cultures from across the social sciences, this book combines studies of the psychologisation of social life from around the world to examine the historical development of therapeutic discourses in everyday life and emergent trends in therapeutic culture.

Part 1: Introduction General Introduction 1. Therapeutic Cultures: Historical Perspectives 2. Charting the Emergence of the Self as a Social Representation from Early Modernity to 20th Century: A Constructionist Approach 3. Self-Help, Therapeutic Industries, and Neoliberalism Part 2: Therapeutic Discourses Editors' Introduction 4. Happiness Imperialism 5. Spirituality and Happiness from New Thought to Positive Psychology 6. Resilience: The Failure of Success 7. Stigmas Old and New: The Changing Nature of Stigma in the Twenty-first Century 8. ADHD as a Symptom of the Times: Social Distress and its Naturalization 9. Mindfulness as a Self-help Fad: The Mindfulness Industry, Popular Psychological Knowledge and the Sociological Imagination Part 3: Therapeutic Experiences Editors' Introduction 10. Self-esteem, Happiness and the Therapeutic Fad Cycle 11. The Cultivation of Subjectivity of Young People in Youth Support Systems 12. Mental Health, Subjectivity and Subjective Development: The Multiple Angles of Mental Health Care 13. Embodied Therapeutic Culture 14. Unlearning Privilege: The Therepeutic Ethos and the Battle Within the White Self 15. Therapeutic Culture and Relational Wellbeing Part 4: Therapeutic Practices Editors' Introduction 16. Globalizing Personality: A View from China 17. Digital Therapeutic Culture 18. Counselling and Confucianism in China 19. Between Freud and Umbanda: Therapeutic Constellations in Buenos Aires, Argentina 20. Faith Healing: Haunted Discourses of Distress in India 21. Masculine Performers and Good Girls: Negotiating Gender Norms in Therapeutic Engagements Part 5: Therapeutic Technologies and Therapeutic Institutions Editors' Introduction 22. Therapeutic Education? Negotiating 'Evidence' and 'Experience' as part of the Professionalization of Psychiatry Students in India 23. The Crisis of Psychotherapy and the Road to a Post-Therapeutic Future 24. India's Digital Therapeutic Assemblage: Smartphone Apps, Stress, and Mental Health 25. The Nordic Therapeutic Welfare State and its Resilient Citizens 26. Victim and Therapeutic Cultures and the Contentious Climate of Universities 27. Undead Psyche: Post-colonial Art as Therapeutic Paradox in the Caribbean 28. Psychology Estranged: Mind, Culture and Capitalism Part 6: Therapeutic Politics Editors' Introduction 29. Neo-liberal Genre, not so Liberal Consumption: When a Japanese 'Morning Person' Book Crossed the South Korean Border 30. Where Has All the Context Gone? Feminism within Therapeutic Culture 31. Trauma's Empty Promise: Indigenous Death, Economics, and Resurgence 32. Recognising the Political in the Therapeutic: Trauma Talk and Public Inquiries 33. Ontological Coaching and the Post-Therapeutic turn in Neoliberal Governmentality 34. Therapeutic Jurisprudence in Trinidad and Tobago: Legitimacy, Inclusion and the Neo-colonialism of Procedural Justice