Constructing the self, constructing America: a cultural history of psychotherapy

* Psychotherapy, the Impossible Bridge * Selves, Illnesses, Healers, Technologies * The Self in America * Healing through Self-DominationCapitalism, the Asylum, the Untamed Female Body, and Freud * Healing through Self-LiberationMesmerism and the Enchanted American Interior of the Nineteenth Century * Strange BedfellowsThe Americanization of Psychoanalysis in the Early Twentieth Century * The Road Not TakenHarry Stack Sullivan, Melanie Klein, and the Location of the Social * Self-Liberation through ConsumerismPost-World War II Object Relations Theory, Self-Psychology, and the Empty Self * Psychotherapy as Moral DiscourseA Hermeneutic Alternative * The Politics of the Self * The Self in Western Society