Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Affect, Alienation, and Politics in Therapeutic Culture: Capitalism on the Skin

Affect, Alienation, and Politics in Therapeutic Culture: Capitalism on the Skin

Salmenniemi, Suvi

Hardcover

Medical ReferencePublic HealthGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3031105710
ISBN13: 9783031105715
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Aug 13 2022
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book contributes to research on therapeutic culture by drawing on longstanding ethnographic work and by offering a new theoretical reading of therapeutic culture in today's society. It suggests that the therapeutic field serves as a key site in which a number of contradictions of capitalism are confronted and lived out. It shows that therapeutic engagements are inherently ambivalent and contradictory, as they can be articulated and engaged with in many different ways and harnessed for diverse, and often contradictory, political projects. The book takes issue with the interpretation of therapeutic culture as merely individualising, depoliticizing and working in congruence with neoliberalism, and shows that therapeutic engagements may also open up a space for contestation and critique of neoliberal capitalism, animate collective action for social change and articulate alternative forms of life and subjectivities. The book will speak to a wide variety of audiences in the social sciences and will be of particular interest to those working in the fields of sociology, anthropology, critical psychology, cultural studies, gender studies, and critical social theory.

1 different editions

Also available

Also from

Salmenniemi, Suvi

View All

Also in

Public Health

View All