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ByOle Jacob Madsen
BookThe Psychologization of Society

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Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2018
Imprint Routledge
Pages 10
eBook ISBN 9781351118347

ABSTRACT

In the final chapter I will summarize my findings from the therapeutic culture in Norway and relate it back to the international scholarship on the “therapeutic.” I argue that my empirical investigations from Scandinavia and Norway provides necessary insight both into how a global discourse of selfhood merges with regional norms and values within different spheres of society; in a region that is both different and similar to America and Great Britain where most of the previous research originated. In the final section I dwell on how the current unfolding of the therapeutic in a sense is perhaps less dramatic than the early pioneers envisioned, yet at the same time brings new concerns to the table, for instance how Western countries are set to respond to the global climate challenge, which already have attracted therapeutic solutions, which ultimately may prove ineffective. Late modern “Gods,” in terms of sacred taboos or international agreements, are needed if the climate cause is not to strand in the heart of each and one, waiting for psychological men and women to assess how it feels to live a more sustainable life.

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