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As good as I remember it...

Fun and fascinating read. Jives with what we suspect from evolutionary psychology

I'm trying but there is a clear bias, some irritating hypocrisy in her social politics, and some playing fast and loose with science according to Danielle.

No opinion yet

"Numerology is where intellect goes to die"-Sam Harris. I haven't LOLed from a book in a minute.

I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in "the self", American history and politics or who is involved in psychotherapy

This book gets better and better. The introduction breaks into a thorough historical survey of American self concepts.

So far this book is great. I love the use of the hermeneutic circle to place psychotherapy into a sociopolitical context. Rather than treating the self as a universal constant and psychotherapy as a miracle-cure discovery, this examination looks to understand the self and its relationship to American history, institutions and culture for what they are: social constructs.

Fantastic account of the current scientific theories about emotions

Its been a real challenge to read a continental historian trying to do the work of psychologists. While I agree that psychologists could benefit from a better understanding of how conceptualizations of emotions have changed over time, I disagree that historians, with a demonstrably poor grasp of evolutionary psychology, can fill this gap with broad speculation.