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Beyond Therapeutic Culture in Latin America

Hybrid Networks in Argentina and Brazil
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By focusing on quantitative and qualitative research in Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, this book expands on the notion of "therapeutic culture." Usually considered a global phenomenon disseminated from North to South, and associated to "modern" forms of "psychologized" subjectivity, "therapeutic culture" has become a key notion to understanding contemporary culture. However, this path-breaking research, grounded in a bottom-up perspective that follows specific therapeutic narratives, shows that the concept of the "therapeutic" should be extended to encompass a diversity of practices, both "secular" and "religious," "modern" and "traditional," that are deemed as therapeutic by the actors involved, although they are overlooked as such by most of the current literature. Pentecostal and Afro-Brazilian religions as well as New Age practices coexist and interact with "conventional" therapeutic techniques such as Psychoanalysis, conforming complex and hybrid therapeutic networks associated to different (also hybrid) forms of subjectivity. Although the book draws upon two cases from the "Global South," its theoretical conclusions are applicable to the analysis of the realm of the therapeutic at large. The book is aimed at university students (both graduate and undergraduate) and at the general public interested in the notion of the therapeutic and, specifically, in Latin American culture.

Author Biography:

Piroska E. Csúri is a lecturer in Communication at the Universidad de San Andrés and teaches at the Universidad Nacional de Lanús and in the Postgraduate Program of the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is the co-editor of Structures in the Mind: Essays on Language, Music, and Cognition in Honor of Ray Jackendoff. Mariano B. Plotkin is a researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) and Professor of History at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero. He is the author of Freud in the Pampas, among other texts on the history of Psychoanalysis. Nicolás Viotti is a member of The National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) and professor in FLACSO at the National University of San Martín, Argentina. His is the co-author (with Lucía Ariza) of the forthcoming volume Desconfianzas. Por qué ya no se cree en la Ciencia.
Release date NZ
May 27th, 2024
Audience
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Pages
190
ISBN-13
9781032362557
Product ID
38755964

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