Inventing Our Selves analyses our current regime of the 'self' and the values that animate it; it discusses how psychology and other 'psy' disciplines have affected the ways in which people understand themselves, and aims to help us think differently about the kind of persons we are, or might become.

INVENTING OUR SELVES argues that "psy" disciplines such as psychology and psychiatry have played a key role in changing the ways in which human beings perceive each other and themselves. The aim of this critical history is to help us think differently about who we are.