In Therapy We Trust: America's Obsession with Self-Fulfillment

After reading the excellent "One Nation Under Therapy", I picked up this book for a supplementary critique of the therapeutic gospel. However, I found that this book is more of a history of how the doctrine of psychological self-fulfillment came to have such a major influence in our society. Starting with the work of Phineas Quimby (the godfather of Christian Science) and moving through the Progressive movement and WWII to contemporary daytime talk shows, the author traces the evolution of psychotherapy's influence in American life. That's interesting, but this is not the book for you if you're interested in an actual critique of therapism's efficacy and legitimacy.