{"product_id":"shrink-a-cultural-history-of-psychoanalysis-in-america-hardcover","title":"Shrink: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in America - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLawrence R. Samuel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Psychology has stepped down from the university chair into the marketplace\" was how the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e put it in 1926. Another commentator in 1929 was more biting. Psychoanalysis, he said, had over a generation, \"converted the human scene into a neurotic.\" Freud first used the word around 1895, and by the 1920s psychoanalysis was a phenomenon to be reckoned with in the United States. How it gained such purchase, taking hold in virtually every aspect of American culture, is the story Lawrence R. Samuel tells in \u003ci\u003eShrink\u003c\/i\u003e, the first comprehensive popular history of psychoanalysis in America. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArriving on the scene at around the same time as the modern idea of the self, psychoanalysis has both shaped and reflected the ascent of individualism in American society. Samuel traces its path from the theories of Freud and Jung to the innermost reaches of our current me-based, narcissistic culture. Along the way he shows how the arbiters of culture, high and low, from public intellectuals, novelists, and filmmakers to \u003ci\u003eGood Housekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e and the Cosmo girl, mediated or embraced psychoanalysis (or some version of it), until it could be legitimately viewed as an integral feature of American consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLawrence R. Samuel is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eThe American Dream: A Cultural History\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFreud on Madison Avenue: Motivation Research and Subliminal Advertising in America\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.03 x 9.27 x 6.42 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757598572832,"sku":"9780803244764","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/76297e5564533b4d992bf14f2385ee5e.webp?v=1780106191","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/shrink-a-cultural-history-of-psychoanalysis-in-america-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}