Therapeutic Cultures by Routledge
Book series
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RationaleFor more than thirty years, scholars across the humanities and social sciences have taken an interest in the influence and diffusion of psychotherapeutic discourses across institutions such as families, schools, universities, labour markets, workplaces, and governments. Arguably, this scholarship reflects the large role in which therapeutic discourses and practices play in contemporary modes of social, political and economic organization. Therefore, academic research on therapeutic culture is of considerable significance. It addresses key themes in debates across the social sciences, such as processes of individualization and secularization, the emergence of new forms of spirituality and new religious practices, the role of emotions in schools, universities and workplaces, the uses of therapeutic practices in international development, and the cultural legitimation of capitalism. Nonetheless, this research has so far not coalesced into a distinctive sub-field of the social sciences, and relevant publications remain dispersed across disciplines and geographical regions.
In response, Therapeutic Cultures was launched by Routledge in September 2017. This series offers scholars across the social sciences a distinctive, high-profile venue to publish and disseminate book-length accounts of their work. In this sense, it makes a valuable enquiry to research in the social sciences in four ways. First, it seeks to promote dialogue and collaboration in a growing area of enquiry that is of notable academic and social significance. Second, in so doing, it aims to contribute to cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary cooperation in the social sciences. Third, it seeks to further the internationalisation of social science research. Fourth, it will engage with the general public, which is important especially since the therapeutic culture is intervened with important contemporary issues that are too important to be left to professionals. Editors and contactFurther information about the series is available through Routledge, here. If you are interested in writing a book for Therapeutic Cultures, please contact one of the editors for initial discussions:
Daniel Nehring Catholic University of Daegu, South Korea Ole Jaccob Madsen University of Oslo, Norway Edgar Cabanas Universidad Camilo José Cela, Spain Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany China Mills University of Sheffield, UK Dylan Kerrigan University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago |
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Suvi Salmenniemi, Johanna Nurmi, Harley Bergroth, and Inna Perheentupa (eds.)
Assembling Therapeutics 2020 For further information, click here. Further information
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