The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud
Author: Philip Rieff
Desc: Since its publication in 1966 The Triumph of the Therapeutic has been hailed as a work of genuine brilliance one of those books whose insights uncannily anticipate cultural developments and whose richness of argumentation reorients entire fields of inquiry. This special fortieth-anniversary edition of Philip Rieff’s masterpiece the first volume in ISI Books’ new Background series includes an introduction by Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn and essays on the text by historians Eugene McCarraher and Wilfred McClay and philosopher Stephen Gardner.