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The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud

by Philip Rieff · 1966

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Since its publication in 1966, The Triumph of the Therapeutichas 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.

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medium · 325 pages

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