A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book
‘Living on a razor blade’
Authors: Suvi Salmenniemi, Johanna Nurmi, Joni Jaakola
Editors: Suvi Salmenniemi, Johanna Nurmi, Inna Perheentupa, Harley Bergroth
Edition: 1st Edition
Publishing place: Lontoo
Publication year: 2019
Book title : Assembling therapeutics: cultures, politics and materiality
First page : 155
Last page: 171
Number of pages: 17
eISBN: 978-1-351-23339-2
Web address : https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351233392/chapters/10.4324/9781351233392-10
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/42092211
The contemporary psychological discourse summons the individual to a highly autonomous task of psychological self-optimization within a distinctively individualistic therapeutic regime. In short, this is a vision of psychological life as enterprise, one centred on the individual pursuit of well-being as one of calculating self-interest, and a project of repudiation centered on the inherited dependencies of social government.
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