The Rise of the Therapeutic Society: Psychological Knowledge & the Contradictions of Cultural Change. Katie Wright

of social, cultural, and personal change, the popularization of "nervousness" and changing ideas about mental health reflected growing concerns about the "stresses and strains of modern life." Indeed longstanding social theoretical concerns about the personal consequences of modernity, about opportunity and risk, are evident in medical and popular discourses of that time. Concerns that provided, I argue, the context for the rise of the therapeutic society.