1st Edition
The Psychologization of Society On the Unfolding of the Therapeutic in Norway
By Ole Jacob Madsen
Copyright 2018
176 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Psychologization of Society explores the manner in which psychology has increasingly crept into everyday life, with nature reduced to a source of mental health, the belief in God motivated by health not salvation, sin and evil turned into psychiatric diagnosis and the market economy being primarily driven by psychology. Showing that Norway, like the United States and Great Britain, is... Read more
Series Editors’ Foreword
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Media
3. Law
4. Religion
5. Self-help
6. ‘Giving psychology away’
7. Psychologisation
8. Conclusion
Index
Biography
Ole Jacob Madsen is Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is the author of The Therapeutic Turn: How Psychology Altered Western Culture and Optimizing the Self: Social Representations of Self-Help.
