The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud

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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. (This copy came from the internet archive and can be found here --> https://archive.org/details/triumphoftherape00rief/) Preface vii Chapters• Introductory: Toward a Theory of Culture 1 1) The Analytic Attitude: Freud's Legacy and Its Inheritors 29 2) The Impoverishment of Western Culture 48 3) Community and Therapy 66 4) In Defense of the Analytic Attitude 79 5) The Therapeuticas Theologian: Jung's Psychology as a Language of Faith 108 6) The Therapeutic as Martyr: Reich's Religion of Energy 141 7) The Therapeutic as Myth maker: Lawrence's True Christian Philosophy 189 8) The Triumph of the Therapeutic 232 Index 263