The Industry of Self-Care: Essays on the Refusal to Appear Well

By Antônio Carlos

Suffering became a system. Care, a commodity. In the name of healing, spectacle. In the name of autonomy, a carefully packaged dependence. This book does not offer strategies for self-improvement - it dismantles the very grammar that turned pain into emotional currency.
With a philosophical and unsentimental tone, it challenges the market's appropriation of vulnerability, the pressure to narrate recovery, the moralization of resilience. Instead of suggesting how to feel better, it asks: who profits from your need to seem well? And what remains when you stop performing your own cure? In these pages, care is not therapy - it is resistance.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FN7C63G3
• ISBN13: 9798298965095
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"