Reading Triumph of the Therapeutic by Philip Rieff.

“In a highly differentiated democratic culture, truly and for the first time, there arose the possibility of every man standing for himself, each at last leading a truly private life, trained to understand rather than love (or hate) his neighbor. Within such privacies, can a man feel well?” In The Triumph of the Therapeutic, Philip Rieff makes the case that the answer is, "No," and that the post-Freudian spirit of clinical care is a movement toward and within such "privacies." Join Juan Alcala—former CSC student, Pascal's Coffeehouse manager, and current doctoral student in clinical psychology—for a reading through this prescient book, which he considers to be a serious indictment of the profession he's training to enter and a piercing premonition of the "therapeutic" culture to which all of us have become habituated.