Shock therapy: psychology, precarity, and well-being in postsocialist Russia

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia witnessed a dramatic increase in psychotherapeutic options, which promoted social connection while advancing new forms of capitalist subjectivity amid often-wrenching social and economic transformations. In this book, the author provides an ethnography...

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1. Verfasser: Matza, Tomas 1972- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Durham ; London Duke University Press [2018]
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Zusammenfassung:After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia witnessed a dramatic increase in psychotherapeutic options, which promoted social connection while advancing new forms of capitalist subjectivity amid often-wrenching social and economic transformations. In this book, the author provides an ethnography of post-Soviet Saint Petersburg, following psychotherapists, psychologists, and their clients as they navigate the challenges of post-Soviet life. Juxtaposing personal growth and success seminars for elites with crisis counseling and remedial interventions for those on public assistance, the author shows how profound inequalities are emerging in contemporary Russia in increasingly intimate ways as matters of selfhood. Extending anthropologies of neoliberalism and care in new directions, the author offers a profound meditation on the interplay between ethics, therapy, and biopolitics, as well as a sensitive portrait of everyday caring practices in the face of the confounding promise of postsocialist democracy
Beschreibung:xx, 305 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme, 1 Karte 24 cm
ISBN:9780822370611
0822370611
9780822370765
082237076X

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