Since its publication in 1966, The Triumph of the Therapeutic has been
hailed as a work of genuine brilliance, one of those books whose
insights uncannily anticipate cultural developments and whose richness
of argumentation reorients entire fields of inquiry. This special
fortieth-anniversary edition of Philip Rieff's masterpiece, the first
volume in ISI Books' new Background series, includes an introduction by
Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn and essays on the text by historians Eugene
McCarraher and Wilfred McClay and philosopher Stephen Gardner.