ABSTRACT
The focus of this chapter is the growth, during the postwar period, of an ‘emotion industry’, consisting of pharmaceutical companies, psychiatric and GP services, psychotherapy and counselling, psychological services and the sales boom in psychological self-help manuals. Aspects of this industry have been analysed elswhere, either in terms of its medical (Rose et al. 1984) or psychological and psychotherapeutic components (Rose 1985, 1989; Giddens 1991, 1992; Craib 1994; Pilgrim 1997). The broader picture of the industry as a whole has not been considered, however, and it is one of my chief aims to correct this. Moreover, I aim to broaden and deepen the picture by considering the situation of the emotion industry within the complex relations which hold between emotion, psychiatry and the social order.
