Dylan Kerrigan: 2 books
Transnational Popular Psychology and the Global Self-Help Industry
The Politics of Contemporary Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
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....
Therapeutic Worlds
Popular Psychology and the Sociocultural Organisation of Intimate Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2019
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.
Against the backdrop of Trinidad’s...