Selfie

". . . Storr takes [readers] on a journey from the shores of Ancient Greece, through the Christian Middle Ages, the encounter groups of 1960s California and self-esteem evangelists of the late twentieth century to modern-day America, where research suggests today's young people are in the grip of an epidemic of narcissism. He . . . tell[s] the . . . story of the individualist Western self from its birth on the Aegean to the era of hyper-individualistic neoliberalism in which [people] find [themselves] today . . ."--Publisher provided.