Celebrity Personas, Self-help Culture, and Collective Psychology: Reflections and transformations

Celebrity Personas, Self-help Culture, and Collective Psychology: Reflections and transformations

The self-help industry bombards us with books and messages about how to live happier lives, but their advice is not always helpful. Celebrity endorsements of self-help methods and mythologies in popular culture create communicative tensions in our collective psyche, feeding messages of hope and opti...

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Main Author: Darren Kelsey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Deakin University 2020-12-01
Series:Persona Studies
Online Access:https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/article/view/995
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spelling doaj-b1ca78b1a42e470c8882ea1eeb334d8b2021-01-04T01:24:31ZengDeakin UniversityPersona Studies2205-52582020-12-01616810.21153/psj2020vol6no1art995995Celebrity Personas, Self-help Culture, and Collective Psychology: Reflections and transformationsDarren Kelsey0Newcastle University, UKThe self-help industry bombards us with books and messages about how to live happier lives, but their advice is not always helpful. Celebrity endorsements of self-help methods and mythologies in popular culture create communicative tensions in our collective psyche, feeding messages of hope and optimism that are often, somewhat ironically, detrimental to our happiness. As a result, we now have a growing body of anti-self-help literature telling us to ditch the positive thinking, cut the endless fixation on goal setting, and live more resiliently in the face of life’s inevitable adversity (Brown 2016; Manson 2016; Brinkmann 2017).https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/article/view/995
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publishDate 2020-12-01
description The self-help industry bombards us with books and messages about how to live happier lives, but their advice is not always helpful. Celebrity endorsements of self-help methods and mythologies in popular culture create communicative tensions in our collective psyche, feeding messages of hope and optimism that are often, somewhat ironically, detrimental to our happiness. As a result, we now have a growing body of anti-self-help literature telling us to ditch the positive thinking, cut the endless fixation on goal setting, and live more resiliently in the face of life’s inevitable adversity (Brown 2016; Manson 2016; Brinkmann 2017).
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