Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us

Will Storr's account of the rise of extreme individualism and self-obsession in the West — tracing its roots from ancient Greece through the human potential movement to social media.

The genealogy of the Western self: from the Stoic internalized self to the Christian soul to the Romantic individual to the neoliberal self-brand. The self-esteem movement: how psychological advice was captured by individualist ideology. Social media as the endpoint: the self reduced to its performance for an audience. A cultural history combined with popular psychology.