The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures.

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 -- Works cited -- Chapter 2 Charting the emergence of the self as a social representation from early modernity to the 20th century: a constructionist approach -- Introduction -- Social representation theory: A note on theory and method -- The socio-historical development of the self: A hypothetical model -- Conclusions -- Works cited -- Chapter 3 Self-help, therapeutic industries, and neoliberalism -- Introduction -- Contemporary self-help genres: A sociological typology -- Psychocentricity and self-help culture -- Explaining the popularity of self-help movements -- Conclusion -- 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 -- Notes -- Works cited -- Chapter 5 Becoming positive souls: spirituality and happiness from New Thought to positive psychology -- Introduction -- Quimby's science of happiness -- Positive psychology's science of happiness -- Conclusion -- Note -- Works cited -- Chapter 6 Resilience: the failure of success -- Introduction -- From helplessness to resilience -- Resilient soldiers -- Resilient workers -- A new Pangloss philosophy? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works cited -- Chapter 7 Stigmas old and new: the changing nature of stigma in the 21st century -- Introduction -- Conceptualising stigma -- Stigma as governmentality -- Challenging stigma -- Challenging representation: Halloween madness -- Awareness raising: Is it time to change? -- Conclusion -- Note -- Works cited -- 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 -- Notes -- References -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Note -- Works cited -- Part 3 Therapeutic experiences: editor's introduction -- Chapter 10 Self-esteem, happiness and the therapeutic fad cycle -- Introduction -- The problematisation of emotion -- Theorising therapeutic fads -- Ethnopsychology -- Prehistory -- Discovery -- Adoption -- Expansion -- Exhaustion -- Cultural diffusion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works cited.

Chapter 11 The cultivation of subjectivity of young people in youth support systems -- Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Chapter 12 Mental health, subjectivity, and subjective development: the multiple angles of mental health care -- Introduction -- Methodological aspects -- From the new institutionalisation phenomenon to subjective development: The unity between research and practice -- Final remarks -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 13 Embodied therapeutic culture -- Definition -- Popularisation and globalisation -- Scientific legitimation and the embodied turn -- Social fields and spheres -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works cited -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Note -- Works cited -- Chapter 15 Therapeutic culture and relational wellbeing -- Introduction -- Distinguishing wellbeings -- Personal wellbeing and therapeutic culture -- What lies beneath? -- Towards a relational approach to wellbeing -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works cited -- 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 -- Notes -- Works cited -- 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! -- Notes -- Works cited -- Chapter 18 Counselling and Confucianism in China: a new twist on tradition -- Introduction -- Background -- Ren in 'dredging' therapy -- Filial piety, for better or worse -- The relational self in third force psychology -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works cited -- 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 -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works cited -- Chapter 21 Masculine performers and good girls: negotiating gender norms in therapeutic engagements -- Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Works cited -- 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 -- Notes -- Works cited -- 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 -- Introduction -- India's digital psy -- 'No More Tension' -- mhGAP-IG -- Digital therapeutic assemblages - Expertise and self-management -- Note -- Works cited -- Chapter 25 The Nordic therapeutic welfare state and its resilient citizens -- Introduction -- 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 -- Works cited -- 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 -- Notes -- Works cited -- Chapter 27 Undead psyche: post-colonial art as therapeutic paradox in the Caribbean -- Introduction -- 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 -- Works cited -- Chapter 28 Psychology estranged: mind, culture, and capitalism -- Introduction -- Historical, political, and technological influences -- The logic of psychology in contemporary capitalism -- Works cited -- 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 -- Introduction -- 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.

Bringing together studies of therapeutic cultures from across the social sciences, this book combines studies of the psychologisation of social life from around the world to examine the historical development of therapeutic discourses in everyday life and emergent trends in therapeutic culture.

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