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Transnational Popular Psychology and the Global Self-Help Industry

Hardcover • 2016 • 1. edition

Transnational Popular Psychology and the Global Self-Help Industry

By Daniel Nehring, Emmanuel Alvarado, Eric C. Hendriks, Dylan Kerrigan

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About the book

Self-help books aim to empower their readers and deliver happiness and personal fulfilment but do they really live up to this? This book offers a fresh perspective on self-help culture and popular psychology. Research on this subject matter has generally focused on the USA and the Global Northwest. In contrast, this book explores the production, circulation and consumption of self-help books from an innovative transnational perspective. Case studies on Trinidad, Mexico, the People's Republic of ...Show more

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9780230370852

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Published year

2016

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1

Original title

Transnational Popular Psychology and the Global Self-Help Industry

Format

Hardcover

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