Book Readings

Damaged Life – The Crisis of the Modern Psyche (Tod Sloan, 1996)

…diverse process of societal modernization – bureaucratization, urbanization, secularization and

industrialization, for example – produce the constellation of social institutions and practices we

know as modernity. (preface)

…insist on the importance of analysing personality development, everyday life, ideology and socio-

historical processes as interdependent, rather than isolated, phenomena.