{"id":3084,"date":"2013-05-10T17:37:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T00:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janhenderson.com\/self\/?p=3084"},"modified":"2013-06-09T09:34:34","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T16:34:34","slug":"bibliography-1-0-can-i-escape-the-judgment-of-psychology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janhenderson.com\/self\/bibliography-1-0-can-i-escape-the-judgment-of-psychology\/","title":{"rendered":"Bibliography 1.0: Can I escape the judgment of psychology?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"da-vinci-the-self\"<\/a>I decided to make a list of the books I\u2019ve recently read, browsed, or added to my reading list. This turned out to be a thought-provoking process. Although this may sound na\u00efve, when I first imagined this blog, I didn\u2019t anticipate that psychology would be such a major category in my bibliography. My main interest, after all, was the social and cultural history of the self. But of course the self is a subject of considerable interest to academic psychologists these days. The \u2018psy\u2019 disciplines \u2013 psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis — have been incredibly influential in how we think of ourselves. That\u2019s something I\u2019m now beginning to appreciate more fully.<\/p>\n

Recurring questions from my Chinese horoscope<\/h3>\n

The actual process of making the list was probably more valuable for me than the list itself. And the list may not be particularly valuable for anyone else, since I can\u2019t recommend these books the way I recommended books<\/a> on the history of self-help. That’s because I\u2019m not sufficiently familiar with most of them. Plus, the categories turned out to be imprecise and unsatisfying: Should Jerrold Seigel\u2019s The Idea of the Self: Thought and experience in Western Europe since the 17th century<\/a> go under Self, Philosophy, or History?<\/p>\n

One obvious question that comes up: What should I read next? What should I read sooner rather than later? That decision seems to assume I have some goal in mind. And I don\u2019t have a goal. I\u2019m not trying to accomplish something. <\/p>\n

This immediately takes me back to the issues raised by my Chinese horoscope<\/a>. Is it really OK simply to pursue my interests rather than accomplish something? Why does this always make me uneasy, somewhere in the back of my mind? What keeps me from seeing my life \u2013 as my Chinese horoscope recommends as my best option \u2013 as being on vacation, where these decisions wouldn\u2019t matter? <\/p>\n

Thinking about my Chinese horoscope also raises a question that keeps coming up<\/a> for me: Can I escape those dictates of my culture that I believe are not in my interest? Is that too difficult a task? Perhaps what I\u2019m dealing with here is a basic philosophical question: What is the good life? Is it possible to answer that question independent of cultural expectations?<\/p>\n

Can I escape the judgment of psychology?<\/h3>\n

I\u2019m just beginning the exploration of my subject matter. I\u2019m asking questions like What really is my subject matter? What guides me in one direction rather than another? I sense two things going on. One is simply that I\u2019m pursuing my curiosity. And I trust my instincts as sufficient to take me in an interesting and satisfying direction. <\/p>\n

The other is that, on a deeper level, I\u2019m looking for an answer to a question about my own life, my own self. It has something to do with being alive in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. I\u2019m not sure I can formulate the question yet, which is OK. It has to do with feeling different \u2013 not wanting to follow the culturally sanctioned life course (marriage, family, career) that most people seem to want and enjoy. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t feel that I\u2019ve missed something, and I don\u2019t wish I\u2019d been more ‘normal.’ Maybe my question is: Is it possible to feel my life has been a good life when it\u2019s not what most other people in my culture would want? How does cultural influence operate? Is it difficult to be aware of it? Would awareness be enough? Is it really a decision I get to make or am I just fooling myself? These are the same questions I\u2019ve been asking myself for decades, hoping that the sociology of knowledge and its insight into the taken-for-granted would help me find answers.<\/p>\n

To my mind, these are philosophical questions. However, our ability to understand our lives has been so infused with psychological explanations that it feels difficult to escape the judgment of psychology. Maybe that\u2019s why I now want to read about the history of psychology. I want to know how I ended up living in a time when psychologists get to call the shots on the best way to live one\u2019s life. Isn\u2019t wondering what constitutes a good life a timeless question I\u2019m entitled to ask? Has the influence of psychology been so powerful that the only question I\u2019m allowed to ask is whether I\u2019m living a \u201chealthy\u201d life, defined and implemented by an inescapably therapeutic culture?<\/p>\n

Bibliography 1.0<\/h3>\n

Anyway, below is the list of books. I can\u2019t possibly read them all in any reasonable amount of time. Each book worth reading will lead me to many more that I\u2019ll want to add to my list. <\/p>\n

Ah, well. It\u2019s easy to take the first step on what will be a long journey. I plan to blog about what I\u2019m reading, so I\u2019ll have a record of what is, perhaps, an overly ambitious excursion. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not really worried about the path I\u2019ll take because my instincts have always been more reliable than my rationality. This is something I became more willing to accept after my Chinese horoscope explained why this would be true for me. Without a goal or a need to accomplish something, it doesn\u2019t really matter which books I read first, as long as I\u2019m enjoying the process. I guess that\u2019s about as close as I\u2019m going to get to living my life as if I\u2019m on vacation. Perhaps that\u2019s close enough.<\/p>\n

Anthropology<\/strong><\/p>\n

Carrithers, Michael, Steven Collings, and Steven Lukes (eds) (1985) The Category of the Person: Anthropology, philosophy, history<\/a><\/p>\n

LeVine, Robert A. (ed) (2010) Psychological Anthropology: A reader on self in culture<\/a><\/p>\n

Lindholm, Charles (2007) Culture and Identity: The history, theory, and practice of psychological anthropology<\/a>\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Mathews, Gordon and Carolina Izquierdo (eds) (2009) Pursuits of Happiness: Well-being in anthropological perspective<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Morris, Brian (1994) Anthropology of the Self: The individual in cultural perspective<\/a><\/p>\n

Authenticity<\/strong><\/p>\n

Berman, Marshall (1970) The Politics of Authenticity: Radical individualism and the emergence of modern society<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Guignon, Charles (2004) On Being Authentic<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n

Lindholm, Charles (2008) Culture and Authenticity<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Magill, R. Jay Jr (2012) Sincerity: How a moral ideal born five hundred years ago inspired religious wars, modern art, hipster chic, and the curious notion that we all have something to say (no matter how dull)<\/a><\/p>\n

Peyre, Henri (1963) Literature and Sincerity<\/a><\/p>\n

Potter, Andrew (2010) The Authenticity Hoax: How we get lost finding ourselves<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Read, Herbert (1968) The Cult of Sincerity<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Taylor, Charles (1991) The Ethics of Authenticity<\/a><\/p>\n

Trilling, Lionel (1972) Sincerity and Authenticity<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Childhood\/Parenting\/Developmental Psychology<\/strong><\/p>\n

Diller, Lawrence H. (2006) The Last Normal Child: Essays on the intersection of kids, culture, and psychiatric drugs<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Henig, Robin Marantz and Samantha Henig (2012) Twentysomething: Why do young adults seem stuck?<\/a><\/p>\n

Hulbert, Ann (2003) Raising America: Experts, parents, and a century of advice about children<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Jay, Meg (2012) The Defining Decade: Why your twenties matter — and how to make the most of them now<\/a>\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Lareau, Annette (2003\/2011) Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life<\/a><\/p>\n

Levine, Madeline (2006) The Price of Privilege: How parental pressure and material advantage are creating a generation of disconnected and unhappy kids<\/a> <\/p>\n

Levine, Madeline (2012) Teach Your Children Well: Parenting for authentic success<\/a><\/p>\n

Mintz, Steven (2004) Huck’s Raft: A history of American childhood\t<\/a> <\/p>\n

Nelson, Margaret K (2010) Parenting Out of Control: Anxious parents in uncertain times<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Rochat, Philippe (2009) Others in Mind: Social origins of self-consciousness<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Scott, Laura S. (2009) Two Is Enough: A couple’s guide to living childless by choice<\/a> <\/p>\n

Stearns, Peter N. (2003) Anxious Parents: A history of modern childrearing in America<\/a><\/p>\n

Twenge, Jean M. (2006) Generation Me: Why today’s young Americans are more confident, assertive, entitled — and more miserable than ever before<\/a><\/p>\n

Valenti, Jessica (2012) Why Have Kids: A new mom explores the truth about parenting and happiness<\/a>\t <\/p>\n

Competition\/Ambition<\/strong><\/p>\n

King, William Casey (2013) Ambition, a History: From vice to virtue<\/a><\/p>\n

Kohn, Alfie (1992) No Contest: The case against competition: Why we lose in our race to win<\/a> <\/p>\n

Putnam, Robert D. (2000) Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community<\/a><\/p>\n

Consciousness\/Neuroscience<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bor, Daniel (2012) The Ravenous Brain: How the new science of consciousness explains our insatiable search for meaning<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n

Legrenzi, Paolo and Carlo Umilt\u00e0 (2011) Neuromania: On the limits of brain science<\/a><\/p>\n

Liu, JeeLoo and John Perry (eds) (2012) Consciousness and the Self: New essays<\/a><\/p>\n

Noe, Alva\t (2009) Out of Our Heads: Why you are not your brain, and other lessons from the biology of consciousness<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Rose, Nikolas and Joelle M. Abi-Rached (2013) Neuro: The new brain sciences and the management of the mind<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Smithies, Declan and Daniel Stoljar (eds) (2012) Introspection and Consciousness<\/a><\/p>\n

Thornton, Davi Johnson (2011) Brain Culture: Neuroscience and popular media<\/a><\/p>\n

Tononi, Giulio (2012) Phi: A voyage from the brain to the soul<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Critical Psychology<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fox, Dennis, Isaac Prilleltensky and Stephanie Austin (eds) (2009) Critical Psychology: An introduction<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n

Hepburn, Alexa (2003) An Introduction to Critical Social Psychology<\/a>\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Holzkamp, Klaus (2013) Psychology from the Standpoint of the Subject: Selected writings of Klaus Holzkamp<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Ibanez, Tomas and Lupicinio Iniguez Rueda (eds) (1997) Critical Social Psychology<\/a> \t<\/p>\n

Jacoby, Russell (1975\/1997) Social Amnesia: A critique of contemporary psychology<\/a><\/p>\n

Kagan, Jerome (2012) Psychology’s Ghosts: The crisis in the profession and the way back<\/a><\/p>\n

Lyons, Antonia C. and Kerry Chamberlain (2006) Health Psychology: A critical introduction<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n

Martin-Baro, Ignacio (1994) Writings for a Liberation Psychology<\/a><\/p>\n

Murray, Michael (ed) (2004) Critical Health Psychology<\/a>\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Parker, Ian (1989\/2013) The Crisis in Modern Social Psychology: How to end it<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Parker, Ian (2007) Revolution in Psychology: Alienation to emancipation<\/a>\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Richardson, Frank C., Blaine J. Fowers, and Charles B. Guignon (1999) Re-envisioning Psychology: Moral dimensions of theory and practice<\/a>\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Sloan, Tod (1996) Damaged Life: The crisis of the modern psyche<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Sloan, Tod (ed) (2000) Critical Psychology: Voices for change<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n

Spears, Russell and Ian Parker (eds) (1996) Psychology and Society: Radical theory and practice<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n

Teo, Thomas (2005) The Critique of Psychology: From Kant to postcolonial theory<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n

Tolman, Charles W. (1994) Psychology, Society and Subjectivity: An introduction to German critical psychology<\/a>\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Tolman, Charles W. and Wolfgang Maiers (1991\/2006) Critical Psychology: Contributions to an historical science of the subject<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Walkerdine, Valerie (ed) (2002) Challenging Subjects: Critical psychology for a new millennium<\/a><\/p>\n

Cross-cultural identities<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jen, Gish (2013) Tiger Writing: Art, culture, and the interdependent self<\/a><\/p>\n

Kao, Henry S. R. and Durganand Sinha (ed) (1997) Asian Perspectives on Psychology<\/a><\/p>\n

Keith, Kenneth D. (ed) (2011) Cross-cultural Psychology: Contemporary themes and perspectives<\/a> \t<\/p>\n

Kitanaka, Junko (2011) Depression in Japan: Psychiatric cures for a society in distress<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Kleinman, Arthur and Byron Good (eds) (1986) Culture and Depression: Studies in the anthropology and cross-cultural psychiatry of affect and disorder<\/a><\/p>\n

Heine, Steven J. (2011) Cultural Psychology<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Mathews, Gordon (1996) What Makes Life Worth Living?: How Japanese and Americans make sense of their worlds<\/a><\/p>\n

Mathews, Gordon (2000) Global Culture\/Individual Identity: Searching for home in the cultural supermarket<\/a><\/p>\n

Parker, Ian (2008) Japan in Analysis: Cultures of the unconscious<\/a><\/p>\n

Prentice, Deborah A. and Dale T. Miller (eds) (1999) Cultural Divides: Understanding and overcoming group conflict<\/a><\/p>\n

Schwartz, Seth J. (ed) (2013) Identity around the World: New directions for child and adolescent development<\/a><\/p>\n

Sheikh, Anees A. and Katharina S. Sheikh (eds) (1996) Healing East and West: Ancient wisdom and modern psychology<\/a><\/p>\n

Shiraev, Eric B. and David A. Levy (2012) Cross-Cultural Psychology: Critical thinking and contemporary applications<\/a><\/p>\n

Watters, Ethan (2010) Crazy Like Us: The globalization of the American psyche<\/a><\/p>\n

Death<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dowbiggin, Ian (2005) A Concise History of Euthanasia: Life, death, god and medicine<\/a><\/p>\n

Gray, John (2011) The Immortalization Commission: Science and the strange quest to cheat death<\/a> <\/p>\n

Green, James W. (2008) Beyond the Good Death: The anthropology of modern dying<\/a><\/p>\n

Kellehear, Allan (2009) The Study of Dying: From autonomy to transformation<\/a><\/p>\n

Kemp, Nick (2002) Merciful Release: The history of the British euthanasia movement<\/a><\/p>\n

Lepore, Jill (2012) The Mansion of Happiness: A history of life and death<\/a><\/p>\n

Seale, Clive (1998) Constructing Death: The sociology of dying and bereavement<\/a><\/p>\n

Embodiment<\/strong><\/p>\n

Barcan, Ruth (2004) Nudity: A cultural anatomy<\/a><\/p>\n

Bendelow, Gillian (2009) Health, Emotion and the Body<\/a><\/p>\n

Bendelow, Gillian and Simon J. Williams (1998) The Lived Body: Sociological themes, embodied issues<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Bordo, Susan (1993) Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western culture, and the body<\/a><\/p>\n

Gallagher, Catherine and Thomas Laqueur (eds) (1987) The Making of the Modern Body: Sexuality and society in the nineteenth century<\/a><\/p>\n

Haiken, Elizabeth (1997) Venus Envy: A history of cosmetic surgery<\/a><\/p>\n

Hepworth, Mike, Mike Featherstone and Bryan S. Turner (ed) (1991) The Body: Social process and cultural theory<\/a><\/p>\n

Lupton, Deborah (1995) The Imperative of Health: Public health and the regulated body<\/a><\/p>\n

Lupton, Deborah (1996) Food, the Body and the Self<\/a><\/p>\n

Lupton, Deborah (2012) Medicine as Culture: Illness, disease and the body<\/a> <\/p>\n

Lupton, Deborah (2012) Fat<\/a><\/p>\n

Orbach, Susie (2009) Bodies<\/a><\/p>\n

Porter, Roy (2003) Flesh in the Age of Reason: The modern foundations of body and soul<\/a><\/p>\n

Rhode, Deborah L. (2010) The Beauty Bias: The injustice of appearance in life and law<\/a><\/p>\n

Shilling, Chris (2003) The Body and Social Theory<\/a><\/p>\n

Shorter, Edward (1993) From the Mind into the Body: The cultural origins of psychosomatic symptoms<\/a><\/p>\n

Thomas, Helen and Jamilah Ahmed (eds) (2004) Cultural Bodies: Ethnography and theory<\/a><\/p>\n

Williams, Simon J. (2003) Medicine and the Body<\/a>\t <\/p>\n

Ziguras, Christopher (2003) Self-Care: Embodiment, personal autonomy and the shaping of health consciousness<\/a><\/p>\n

Emotions<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dixon, Thomas (2003) From Passions to Emotions: The creation of a secular psychological category<\/a><\/p>\n

Giddens, Anthony (1992) The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, love, and eroticism in modern societies<\/a><\/p>\n

Gross, Daniel M. (2006) The Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle\u2019s rhetoric to modern brain science<\/a><\/p>\n

Harre, Rom (1986) The Social Construction of Emotions<\/a><\/p>\n

James, Veronica and Jonathan Gabe (eds) (1997) Health and the Sociology of Emotions<\/a><\/p>\n

Kagan, Jerome (2009) What Is Emotion?: History, Measures, and Meanings<\/a><\/p>\n

Kitayama, Shinobu and Hazel Rose Markus (1994) Emotion and Culture: Empirical studies of mutual influence<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n

Lupton, Deborah (1998) The Emotional Self: A sociocultural exploration<\/a> <\/p>\n

Slater, Dan (2013) Life in the Time of Algorithms: What technology does to meeting and mating<\/a><\/p>\n

Stearns, Peter (1994) American Cool: Constructing a twentieth-century emotional style<\/a><\/p>\n

Stearns, Carol Z. and Peter N. Stearns (1988) Emotion and Social Change: Toward a new psychohistory<\/a><\/p>\n

Toohey, Peter\t(2011) Boredom: A lively history<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Williams, Simon J. (2001) Emotion and Social Theory: Corporeal reflections on the (ir)rational<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Happiness\/Positive Psychology<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bok, Derek (2010) The Politics of Happiness: What government can learn from the new research on well-being<\/a><\/p>\n

Bruckner, Pascal (2011) Perpetual Euphoria: On the duty to be happy<\/a><\/p>\n

Burkeman, Oliver (2012) The Antidote: Happiness for people who can’t stand positive thinking<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Elliott, Carl (2003) Better than Well: American medicine meets the American dream<\/a><\/p>\n

Elliott, Carl and Tod Chambers (eds) (2004) Prozac as a Way of Life<\/a><\/p>\n

Giacalone, Robert A., Carole L. Jurkiewicz, and Craig Dunn (eds) (2005) Positive Psychology in Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibility<\/a><\/p>\n

History<\/strong><\/p>\n

Berman, Marshall (1981) All that Is Solid Melts into Air: The experience of modernity<\/a> <\/p>\n

Ehrenreich, Barbara and Deirdre English (1978) For Her Own Good: 150 years of the experts’ advice to women<\/a><\/p>\n

Elias, Norbert (1994) The Civilizing Process: The history of manners<\/a><\/p>\n

Hacking, Ian (2002) Historical Ontology<\/a><\/p>\n

Harvey, David (1990) The Condition of Postmodernity: An enquiry into the origins of cultural change<\/a><\/p>\n

Lane, Christopher (2004) Hatred and Civility: The antisocial life in Victorian England<\/a> <\/p>\n

Melchior-Bennet, Sabine (1994) The Mirror: A history<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n

Pendergrast, Mark (2003) Mirror Mirror: A history of the human love affair with reflection<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n

Rodgers, Daniel T. (2011) The Age of Fracture<\/a> <\/p>\n

Showalter, Elaine (1997) Hystories: Hysterical epidemics and modern mania<\/a> <\/p>\n

Smith, Roger (2007) Being Human: Historical knowledge and the creation of human nature<\/a><\/p>\n

Inequality<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fiske, Susan T. and Hazel Rose Markus (eds) (2012) Facing Social Class: How societal rank influences interaction<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Johnson, Allan G. (2001) Privilege, Power, and Difference<\/a><\/p>\n

Neoliberalism<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cooper, Melinda (2008) Life as Surplus: Biotechnology and capitalism in the neoliberal era<\/a><\/p>\n

Crouch, Colin (2011)\tThe Strange Non-Death of Neoliberalism<\/a> <\/p>\n

Harvey, David\t(2005) A Brief History of Neoliberalism<\/a><\/p>\n

Mooney, Gavin (2012) The Health of Nations: Towards a new political economy<\/a> <\/p>\n

Other<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bechdel, Alison (2012) Are you my mother?: A comic drama<\/a><\/p>\n

Becker, Dana (2013) One Nation under Stress: The trouble with stress as an idea<\/a><\/p>\n

Heath, Joseph and Andrew Potter (2004) Nation of Rebels: Why counterculture became consumer culture<\/a><\/p>\n

Michaels, F. S. (2011) Monoculture: How one story is changing everything<\/a><\/p>\n

Scott, Susie (2009) Making Sense of Everyday Life<\/a> <\/p>\n

White, Kevin (2009) An Introduction to the Sociology of Health and Illness<\/a><\/p>\n

Winterson, Jeanette (2012) Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Philosophy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Benatar, David (2006) Better Never to Have Been: The harm of coming into existence<\/a><\/p>\n

Ehrenberg, Alain (1998) The Weariness of the Self: Diagnosing the history of depression in the contemporary age<\/a><\/p>\n

Evans, Jules (2012) Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations: Ancient Philosophy for Modern Problems<\/a><\/p>\n

Gallagher, Shaun and Jonathan Shear (eds) (1999) Models of the Self<\/a> \t\t\t<\/p>\n

Gertler, Brie (2011) Self-Knowledge<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n

Hacking, Ian\t(1995) Rewriting the Soul: Multiple personality and the science of memory<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Hacking, Ian (1998) Mad Travelers: Reflections on the reality of transient mental illnesses<\/a><\/p>\n

Hetherington, Stephen (2007) Self-knowledge: Beginning philosophy right here and now<\/a> <\/p>\n

MacIntyre, Alasdair (1980\/2007) After Virtue: A study in moral theory<\/a><\/p>\n

Parfit, Derek (1984) Reasons and Persons<\/a><\/p>\n

Robinson, Daniel N. (1995) An intellectual History of Psychology<\/a><\/p>\n

Siderits, Mark (2003) Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy: Empty persons<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Siderits, Mark (2007) Buddhism as Philosophy: An introduction<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Siderits, Mark, Evan Thompson, and Dan Zahavi (2011) Self, No Self?: Perspectives from analytical, phenomenological, and Indian traditions<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Westerhoff, Jan (2011) Reality: A very short introduction<\/a><\/p>\n

Williams, Bernard (1973) Problems of the Self: Philosophical papers 1956-1972<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Psychiatry<\/strong><\/p>\n

Double, D. B. (ed) (2006) Critical Psychiatry: The limits of madness<\/a><\/p>\n

Emmons, Kimberly K. (2010) Black Dogs and Blue Words: Depression and gender in the age of self-care<\/a><\/p>\n

Fancher, Robert T. (2003) Health and Suffering in America: The context and content of mental health care<\/a> <\/p>\n

Frances, Allen (2013) Saving Normal: An insider’s revolt against out-of-control psychiatric diagnosis, DSM-5, big pharma, and the medicalization of ordinary life<\/a><\/p>\n

Greenfeld, Liah (2013) Mind, Modernity, Madness: The impact of culture on human experience<\/a><\/p>\n

Grob, Gerald (1994) The Mad among Us: A history of the care of America’s mentally ill<\/a> <\/p>\n

Horwitz, Allan V. and Jerome C. Wakefield (2007) The Loss of Sadness: How psychiatry transformed normal sorrow into depressive disorder<\/a> <\/p>\n

Ingleby, David (ed)\t (1980\/2004) Critical Psychiatry: The politics of mental health<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Lane, Christopher (2007) Shyness: How normal behavior became a sickness<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Lawlor, Clark (2012) From Melancholia to Prozac<\/a> <\/p>\n

Lunbeck, Elizabeth (1994) The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, gender, and power in modern America<\/a> <\/p>\n

Makari, George (2008) Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis<\/a><\/p>\n

Shorter, Edward (1997) The History of Psychiatry: From the age of the asylum to the age of Prozac<\/a><\/p>\n

Staub, Michael E (2011) Madness Is Civilization: When the diagnosis was social, 1948-1980<\/a><\/p>\n

Tone, Andrea (2009) The Age of Anxiety: A history of America’s turbulent affair with tranquilizers<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Zaretsky, Eli (2004) Secrets of the Soul: A social and cultural history of psychoanalysis<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Psychology<\/strong><\/p>\n

Caplan, Eric (1998) Mind Games: American culture and the birth of psychotherapy<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Craib, Ian (1994) The Importance of Disappointment<\/a><\/p>\n

Cushman, Philip (1995) Constructing the Self, Constructing America: A cultural history of psychotherapy<\/a><\/p>\n

Danziger, Kurt (1990) Constructing the Subject: Historical origins of psychological research<\/a> \t<\/p>\n

Danziger, Kurt (1997) Naming the Mind: How psychology found its language<\/a> \t\t\t<\/p>\n

Dowbiggin, Ian (2011) The Quest for Mental Health: A tale of science, medicine, scandal, sorrow, and mass society<\/a><\/p>\n

Freedman, Jill and Gene Combs (1996) Narrative Therapy: The social construction of preferred realities<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n

Furedi, Frank (2003) Therapy Culture: Cultivating vulnerability in an uncertain age<\/a> <\/p>\n

Gamson, Joshua (1998) Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid talk shows and sexual nonconformity<\/a><\/p>\n

Garcia, Rodrigo (developer) (2011) In Treatment (season three)<\/a> \t<\/p>\n

Grogan, Jessica (2013) Encountering America: Humanistic psychology, sixties culture and the shaping of the modern self<\/a><\/p>\n

Henriques, Julian, Cathy Urwin, Wendy Hollway, Couze Venn, and Valerie Walkerdine (1984) Changing the Subject: Psychology, social regulation and subjectivity<\/a><\/p>\n

Herman, Ellen (1995) The Romance of American Psychology: Political culture in the age of experts<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n

Hochschild, Arlie Russell (1983\/2003) The Managed Heart: Commercialization of human feeling<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Leary, Mark (2012) Understanding the Mysteries of Human Behavior<\/a> (CD\/DVD)\t<\/p>\n

Moskowitz, Eva S. (2001) In Therapy We Trust: America’s obsession with self fulfillment<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Nolan, James L. Jr (1998) The Therapeutic State: Justifying government at century’s end<\/a><\/p>\n

Pfister, Joel and Nancy Schnog (eds) (1997) Inventing the Psychological: Toward a cultural history of emotional life in America<\/a><\/p>\n

Rieff, Phillip (1966) The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of faith after Freud<\/a><\/p>\n

Schur, Edwin M. (1976) The Awareness Trap: Self-absorption instead of social change<\/a><\/p>\n

Sommers, Christina Hoff and Sally Satel (2005) One Nation under Therapy: How the helping culture is eroding self-reliance<\/a> <\/p>\n

Vidal, Fernando (2011) The Sciences of the Soul: The early modern origins of psychology<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n

Ward, Steven C. (2002) Modernizing the Mind: Psychological knowledge and the remaking of society<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n

Science\/Knowledge<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aronowitz, Stanley (1988) Science as Power: Discourse and ideology in modern society<\/a><\/p>\n

Canguilhem, Georges (1989) The Normal and the Pathological<\/a> <\/p>\n

Goldman, Steven L. (2006) Science Wars: What scientists know and how they know it<\/a> (CD\/DVD) <\/p>\n

Jasanoff, Sheila (ed) (2004) States of Knowledge: The co-production of science and the social order<\/a><\/p>\n

McCarthy, E. Doyle (1996) Knowledge as Culture: The new sociology of knowledge<\/a> <\/p>\n

Midgley, Mary (2010) The Solitary Self: Darwin and the selfish gene<\/a><\/p>\n

Nagel, Thomas (2012) Mind and Cosmos: Why the materialist neo-Darwinian conception of nature is almost certainly false<\/a><\/p>\n

Oyama, Susan (1985\/2000) The Ontogeny of Information: Developmental systems and evolution<\/a><\/p>\n

Oyama, Susan (2000) Evolution\u2019s Eye: A systems view of the biology-culture divide<\/a><\/p>\n

Proctor, Robert N. (2008) Agnotology: The making and unmaking of ignorance<\/a><\/p>\n

Rose, Hilary and Steven Rose (2000) Alas, Poor Darwin: Arguments against evolutionary psychology<\/a><\/p>\n

Rose, Hilary and Steven Rose (2012) Genes, Cells and Brains: The promethean promises of the new biology<\/a><\/p>\n

Rose, Nikolas (2006) The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, power, and subjectivity in the twenty-first century<\/a><\/p>\n

Rose, Steven (1997) Lifelines: Biology beyond determinism<\/a><\/p>\n

Self\/Identity\/Individualism<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bauman, Zygmunt (2004) Identity: Coversations With Benedetto Vecchi<\/a><\/p>\n

Baumeister, Roy F. (1986) Identity: Cultural change and the struggle for self<\/a><\/p>\n

Bellah, Robert N., Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan and Ann Swidler (1985\/2007) Habits of the Heart: Individualism and commitment in American life<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Bird, Colin (1999) The Myth of Liberal Individualism<\/a><\/p>\n

Callero, Peter (2013) The Myth of Individualism: How social forces shape our lives<\/a><\/p>\n

Chowers, Eyal (2004) The Modern Self in the Labyrinth: Politics and the entrapment imagination<\/a><\/p>\n

Clecak, Peter (1983) America’s Quest for the Ideal Self: Dissent and fulfillment in the 60’s and 70’s<\/a><\/p>\n

Davis, Joseph E. (ed) (2000) Identity and Social Change<\/a><\/p>\n

Doy, Gen (2004) Picturing the Self: Changing views of the subject in visual culture<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Du Gey, Paul, Jessica Evans and Peter Redman (eds) (2000) Identity: A reader<\/a><\/p>\n

Elliott, Anthony and Charles C. Lemert (2009) The New Individualism: The emotional costs of globalization<\/a><\/p>\n

Finkelstein, Joanne (2007) The Art of Self Invention: Image and identity in popular visual culture<\/a><\/p>\n

Gallagher, Shaun (ed) (2011) The Oxford Handbook of the Self<\/a><\/p>\n

Gergen, Kenneth (1991) The Saturated Self: Dilemmas of identity in contemporary life<\/a><\/p>\n

Giddens, Anthony (1991) Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and society in the late modern age<\/a><\/p>\n

Glover, Jonathan (1988) I: The Philosophy and Psychology of Personal Identity<\/a><\/p>\n

Grodin, Debra and Thomas Lindlof (eds) (1996) Constructing the Self in a Mediated World<\/a><\/p>\n

Heller, Thomas C., David E. Wellbery and Morton Sosna (eds) (1986) Reconstructing Individualism: Autonomy, individuality, and the self in Western thought<\/a><\/p>\n

Hewitt, John P. (1989) Dilemmas of the American Self<\/a><\/p>\n

Hochschild, Arlie Russell (2012) The Outsourced Self: Intimate life in market times<\/a> <\/p>\n

Illouz, Eva (1997) Consuming the Romantic Utopia: Love and the cultural contradictions of capitalism<\/a><\/p>\n

Illouz, Eva (2003) Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery<\/a><\/p>\n

Illouz, Eva (2007) Cold Intimacies: The making of emotional capitalism<\/a><\/p>\n

Illouz, Eva (2008) Saving the Modern Soul: Therapy, emotions, and the culture of self-help<\/a><\/p>\n

Illouz, Eva (2012) Why Love Hurts: A sociological explanation<\/a><\/p>\n

Imber, Jonathan B. (ed) (2004) Therapeutic Culture: Triumph and defeat<\/a><\/p>\n

Hitt, Jack (2012) Bunch of Amateurs: A search for the American character<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Hood, Bruce (2012) The Self Illusion: How the social brain creates identity<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

Leary, Mark (2004) The Curse of the Self: Self-awareness, egotism, and the quality of human life<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n

Leary, Mark and June Price Tangney (2011) Handbook of Self and Identity\t<\/a><\/p>\n

Lukes, Steven (1973\/2006) Individualism<\/a><\/p>\n

Martin, John Jeffries (2004) Myths of Renaissance Individualism<\/a><\/p>\n

Meer, Zubin (2011) Individualism: The cultural logic of modernity<\/a><\/p>\n

Morris, Colin (1972\/1987) The Discovery of the Individual 1050-1200<\/a><\/p>\n

Porter, Roy (ed) (1996\/2002) Rewriting the Self: Histories from the Renaissance to the present<\/a><\/p>\n

Rose, Nikolas (1999) Governing the Soul: The shaping of the private self<\/a><\/p>\n

Rose, Nikolas (1998) Inventing Our Selves: Psychology, power, and personhood<\/a><\/p>\n

Schrag, Calvin O. (1999) The Self after Postmodernity<\/a> <\/p>\n

Seigel, Jerrold\t(2005) The Idea of the Self: Thought and experience in Western Europe since the 17th century<\/a> \t<\/p>\n

Taylor, Charles (1989) Sources of the Self: The making of the modern identity<\/a><\/p>\n

Thiel, Udo (2011) The Early Modern Subject: Self-consciousness and personal identity from Descartes to Hume<\/a> \t<\/p>\n

Turkle, Sherry (1995) Life on the Screen: Identity in the age of the internet<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n

Turkle, Sherry (2011) Alone Together: Why we expect more from technology and less from each other<\/a> <\/p>\n

Wheelis, Allen (1958) The Quest for Identity<\/a><\/p>\n

Sleep<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ekrich, A. Roger (2005) At Day’s Close: Night in times past<\/a><\/p>\n

Koslofsky, Craig (2011) Evening’s Empire: A history of the night in early modern Europe<\/a><\/p>\n

Roennberg, Til (2012) Internal Time: Chronotypes, social jet lag, and why you’re so tired<\/a> <\/p>\n

Williams, Simon J. (2005) Sleep and Society: Sociological ventures into the (un)known<\/a><\/p>\n

Williams, Simon J. (2011) The Politics of Sleep: Governing (un)consciousness in the late modern age<\/a><\/p>\n

Wolf-Meyer, Matthew J. (2012) The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, medicine, and modern American life<\/a><\/p>\n

Social Construction<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gergen, Kenneth (1999\/2009) An Invitation to Social Construction<\/a><\/p>\n

Hacking, Ian (1999) The Social Construction of What?<\/a><\/p>\n

Yancy, George and Susan Hadley (eds) (2005) Narrative Identities: Psychologists engaged in self-construction<\/a>\t<\/p>\n

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