The Routledge international handbook of global therapeutic cultures / edited by Daniel Nehring [and four others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nehring, Daniel, author.

Contributor:

Nehring, Daniel, editor.

Series:

Routledge international handbooks.

Routledge International Handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology--Social aspects.

Psychology.

Psychology, Applied--Social aspects.

Psychology, Applied.

Psychotherapy--Social aspects.

Psychotherapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (489 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2020]

Summary:

"The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures explores central lines of enquiry and seminal scholarship on therapeutic cultures, popular psychology and the happiness industry. Bringing together studies of therapeutic cultures from sociology, anthropology, psychology, education, politics, law, history, social work, cultural studies, development studies, and American Indian studies, it adopts a consciously global focus, combining studies of the psychologisation of social life from across the world. Thematically organised, it offers historical accounts of the growing prominence of therapeutic discourses and practices in everyday life, before moving to consider the construction of self-identity in the context of the diffusion of therapeutic discourses in connection with the global spread of capitalism. With attention to the ways in which emotional language has brought new problematisations of the dichotomy between the normal and the pathological, as well as significant transformations of key institutions, such as work, family, education and religion, it examines emergent trends in therapeutic culture and explores the manner in which the advent of new therapeutic technologies, the political interest in happiness, and the radical privatisation and financialisation of social life converge to remake self-identities and modes of everyday experience. Finally, the volume features the work of scholars who have foregrounded the historical and contemporary implication of psychotherapeutic practices in processes of globalisation and colonial and postcolonial modes of social organisation. Presenting agenda-setting research to encourage interdisciplinary and international dialogue and foster the development of a distinctive new field of social research, The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in the advance of therapeutic discourses and practices in an increasingly psychologised society"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of contributors

Series Page

Part 1 Introduction

Introduction: Therapeutic global cultures from a multidisciplinary perspective: present and future challenges

The psychologisation of society and the problem of social critique

Technologies of happiness and everyday life

Global mental health

Therapeutic cultures and therapeutic politics from the Global South

Conclusion: Researching global therapeutic cultures

Works cited

Chapter 1 Therapeutic cultures: historical perspectives

Introduction

1950 and 1960s: The triumph of the therapeutic

1970s: American life in an age of diminishing expectations

1980s: Universalization

1990s: Institutionalisation

2000s: Cutting the cord

2010s: The multifaceted present

Conclusion

Biography

Chapter 2 Charting the emergence of the self as a social representation from early modernity to the 20th century: a constructionist approach

Social representation theory: A note on theory and method

The socio-historical development of the self: A hypothetical model

Conclusions

Chapter 3 Self-help, therapeutic industries, and neoliberalism

Contemporary self-help genres: A sociological typology

Psychocentricity and self-help culture

Explaining the popularity of self-help movements

Acknowledgement

Notes

References

Part 2 Therapeutic discourses: editor's introduction

Chapter 4 Happiness imperialism

Part 1 - Introduction: How happiness became the leading contender in the search for alternative measures of progress and development

Part 2 - The innate characteristics of happiness as a scientific concept

Part 3 - Happiness imperialism.

Part 4 - Happiness-related initiatives from the Global South

Part 5 - Discussion: On metaphors and dichotomies

Chapter 5 Becoming positive souls: spirituality and happiness from New Thought to positive psychology

Quimby's science of happiness

Positive psychology's science of happiness

Note

Chapter 6 Resilience: the failure of success

From helplessness to resilience

Resilient soldiers

Resilient workers

A new Pangloss philosophy?

Chapter 7 Stigmas old and new: the changing nature of stigma in the 21st century

Conceptualising stigma

Stigma as governmentality

Challenging stigma

Challenging representation: Halloween madness

Awareness raising: Is it time to change?

Chapter 8 ADHD as a symptom of the times: social distress and its naturalisation

The biomedical conception of ADHD: Unsustainable, but defended: How is it possible?

ADHD as a pathology of our times

Naturalisation of social discomforts

Acknowledgements

Chapter 9 Mindfulness as a self-help fad: the mindfulness industry, popular psychological knowledge, and the sociological imagination

From philosophy to popular psychology

The mass mediation of mindfulness

Mindfulness and the psychological imagination

Part 3 Therapeutic experiences: editor's introduction

Chapter 10 Self-esteem, happiness and the therapeutic fad cycle

The problematisation of emotion

Theorising therapeutic fads

Ethnopsychology

Prehistory

Discovery

Adoption

Expansion

Exhaustion

Cultural diffusion

Works cited.

Chapter 11 The cultivation of subjectivity of young people in youth support systems

The making of youth subjectivity in the ethos of vulnerability

Data and analysis

The cultivation practices of youth support systems

Interruptions

The role of education in terms of young people

Chapter 12 Mental health, subjectivity, and subjective development: the multiple angles of mental health care

Methodological aspects

From the new institutionalisation phenomenon to subjective development: The unity between research and practice

Final remarks

Chapter 13 Embodied therapeutic culture

Definition

Popularisation and globalisation

Scientific legitimation and the embodied turn

Social fields and spheres

Chapter 14 Unlearning privilege: the therapeutic ethos and the battle within the white self

Therapeutic discourse and white reflexivity

Racism as psychopathology

The biographical self

The racial other-supposed-to-know

Chapter 15 Therapeutic culture and relational wellbeing

Distinguishing wellbeings

Personal wellbeing and therapeutic culture

What lies beneath?

Towards a relational approach to wellbeing

Part 4 Therapeutic practices: editor's introduction

Chapter 16 Globalising personality: a view from China

Personality and opportunity

Confidence and modernity

Social skills training as therapy

Social suffering and the politics of confidence

Chapter 17 Digital therapeutic culture

Introduction: Psychologisation in times of digitalisation

Parents turned into bots steered by algorithms

Children's little absences under digital control.

Conclusions: Save our screens!

Chapter 18 Counselling and Confucianism in China: a new twist on tradition

Background

Ren in 'dredging' therapy

Filial piety, for better or worse

The relational self in third force psychology

Chapter 19 Between Freud and Umbanda: therapeutic constellations in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Between the couch and the church

The search of a sacred self among the globalised middle-class

Magic and psychotherapy among the popular sectors

Between psychology and religion

Bibliography

Chapter 20 Faith healing: haunted discourses of distress in India

A global primer on faith healing

Mental health care in India

Clashing of worldviews: Faith healing practices and mental health care

Therapeutics of faith healing

Chapter 21 Masculine performers and good girls: negotiating gender norms in therapeutic engagements

Researching the therapeutic field

The deep story of strong femininity

Refusing to become a masculine performer: Cultivating vulnerability

Refusing to be a 'good girl'

Transforming self and society

Part 5 Therapeutic technologies and therapeutic institutions: editor's Introduction

Chapter 22 Therapeutic education?: negotiating 'evidence' and 'experience' as part of the professionalisation of psychiatry students in India

The dominance of EBP in pedagogy and practice

Resisting evidence

Cognitive dissonance in the clinical setting

Looking ahead

Chapter 23 The crisis of psychotherapy and the road to a post-therapeutic future

Prologue

Crisis? Crisis

Post-therapeutic starting points

Post-therapy

Notes.

References

Filmography

Chapter 24 India's digital therapeutic assemblage: smartphone apps, stress, and mental health

India's digital psy

'No More Tension'

mhGAP-IG

Digital therapeutic assemblages - Expertise and self-management

Chapter 25 The Nordic therapeutic welfare state and its resilient citizens

The cartography of the Nordic therapeutic welfare state and its resilient citizens

Data and methods

Therapeutic education policies and practices

resilient pupils and students

Therapeutic ethos in employment policies

Conclusion - How to unmake resilient citizens in an era of crisis

Chapter 26 Victim and therapeutic cultures and the contentious climate of universities

The expansion of psychological concepts and human kinds

Victim culture

Identity politics

Vulnerability and therapeutic culture

Implications of the therapeutic turn in universities

Chapter 27 Undead psyche: post-colonial art as therapeutic paradox in the Caribbean

Tea and bush in the British colonial context

Burying and summoning the dead: Annalee Davis' (Bush) Tea Services

Conclusion: Post-colonial art as therapeutic paradox

Chapter 28 Psychology estranged: mind, culture, and capitalism

Historical, political, and technological influences

The logic of psychology in contemporary capitalism

Part 6 Therapeutic politics: editor's introduction

Chapter 29 Neoliberal genre, not so liberal consumption: when a Japanese 'morning person' book crossed the South Korean border

The appeal of self-help time-management in a long-hours culture

When a Japanese 'morning person' book crosses the South Korean border.

Wider cultural reception of the 'morning person' fad in South Korea.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-02476-2

0-429-65862-1

9780429024764

OCLC:

1197638150