The depth approach -- Pt. 1. Persuading us as consumers. The trouble with people -- So ad men become depth men -- ...And the hooks are lowered -- Self-images for everybody -- Rx for our secret distresses -- Marketing eight hidden needs -- The built-in sexual overtone -- Back to the breast, and beyond -- Babes in consumerland -- Class and caste in the salesroom -- Selling symbols to upward strivers -- Cures for our hidden aversions -- Coping with our pesky inner ear -- The psycho-seduction of children -- New frontiers for recruiting customers -- Pt. 2. Persuading us as citizens. Politics and the image boulders -- Molding "team players" for free enterprise -- The engineered yes -- Care and feeding of positive thinkers -- The packaged soul? -- Pt. 3. In Retrospect. The question of validity -- The question of morality.