In this Episode, I spoke with Daniel Nehring, an ascending and prolific scholar in the field of critical sociology about how therapeutic cultures have penetrated our social lives and now have a global reach. We talk about the rise of the “self-help entrepreneur, the dominance of the "psychological imagination," and the relevance and important of C. Wright Mills and his classic work, The Sociological Imagination for academics to wake up, stand up and speak up as public intellectuals.