{"product_id":"shrink-lawrence-r-samuel-9780803244764","title":"Shrink: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in America","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lawrence R. Samuel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0803244762\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803244764\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.27h x 6.42w x 1.03d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/11\/2013 pg. 54\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2013 pg. 93\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/31\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2013\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lawrence R. Samuel","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43947200676095,"sku":"9780803244764","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_c4c9d8ed-4a90-4f7e-8773-ee7116ebeb50.jpg?v=1681517320","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shrink-lawrence-r-samuel-9780803244764","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}