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Self-esteem, happiness and the therapeutic fad cycle

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The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures, Pages: 139 - 152

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In this contribution, I explore strong parallels across emotions as social issues in terms of advocacy, rhetoric and marked tendencies to rise, expand and give way to new vocabularies which nonetheless mark out very similar claims. In particular, I sketch out the cyclic nature of therapeutic fads su...

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Published in: The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures
Published: London Routledge 2020
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