This book builds a fresh perspective on therapeutic narratives of intimate life, based on unprecedented empirical research on self-help books in the UK, the USA and Mexico. Exploring narratives of love, intimacy and marriage across a range of self-help literature, Therapeutic Narratives in Popular Culture reconstructs self-help as a transnational cultural phenomenon, charting the production, circulation, and consumption of self-help books at the international level and analysing transnational flows of therapeutic discourses. With close attention to the cultural and political significance of...