Beschreibung:
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.
1. The psychological imagination 2. Psychology and the social organisation of power 3. Transnational popular psychology in Trinidad 4. A brief social history of marriage, love, and intimacy in Trinidad 5. Love, intimacy, and relationship management 6. Adaptation, gender roles, and the need for self-help 7. Popular psychology and the colonisation of intimate life in Trinidad 8. The psychologisation of intimate life