LEADER 04088nam 22006855 450 001 9910586637003321 005 20230717153154.0 010 $a9783031105722$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031105715 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-10572-2 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7073224 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7073224 035 $a(CKB)24429430200041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-10572-2 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924429430200041 100 $a20220812d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAffect, Alienation, and Politics in Therapeutic Culture $eCapitalism on the Skin /$fby Suvi Salmenniemi 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (226 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Salmenniemi, Suvi Affect, Alienation, and Politics in Therapeutic Culture Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783031105715 330 $a?This book represents a much-awaited study of the uses of therapeutic practices by people who try to navigate the uncertainties in which capitalist societies have thrown them. Written lucidly, it engages the reader in the best of cultural analysis: a discourse as powerful and hegemonic as psychology turns out to be politically ambivalent and a useful tool to empower the self.?- Eva Illouz, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. 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. Suvi Salmenniemi is Professor of sociology at the University of Turku, Finland. Her areas of expertise include therapeutic culture, political sociology, cultural studies, feminist research, ethnography and critical social theory. 606 $aSocial medicine 606 $aAlternative medicine 606 $aPolitical sociology 606 $aCulture 606 $aIndustrial sociology 606 $aCritical psychology 606 $aMedical Sociology 606 $aComplementary and Alternative Medicine 606 $aPolitical Sociology 606 $aSociology of Culture 606 $aSociology of Work 606 $aCritical Psychology 615 0$aSocial medicine. 615 0$aAlternative medicine. 615 0$aPolitical sociology. 615 0$aCulture. 615 0$aIndustrial sociology. 615 0$aCritical psychology. 615 14$aMedical Sociology. 615 24$aComplementary and Alternative Medicine. 615 24$aPolitical Sociology. 615 24$aSociology of Culture. 615 24$aSociology of Work. 615 24$aCritical Psychology. 676 $a303.483 676 $a306 700 $aSalmenniemi$b Suvi$01253439 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910586637003321 996 $aAffect, Alienation, and Politics in Therapeutic Culture$92905959 997 $aUNINA