Assembling Therapeutics: Cultures, Politics and Materiality - Assembling Therapeutics: Cultures, Politics and Materiality -

Mapping therapeutic culture Ethnographies of the therapeutic Assembling therapeutics The politics of therapeutic assemblages Materiality: spaces, affects and bodies Conclusion: reassembling the therapeutic Acknowledgements References Assembling mindful bodies: Mindfulness as a universal ‘laboratory of practice’Assembling mindfulness Mindfulness, metaphor and assemblage A day of mindfulness practice ‘So the Seeing was the Release’: visualising mindfulness ‘Just like a computer’: technologising mindfulness ‘Ah, Gravity’: naturalising mindfulness ‘Like a doomay opening’: sacralising mindfulness Conclusion References Affective assemblages: Atmospheres and therapeutic knowledge production in/through the researcher-body Feeling (with) the field: ethnography in the study of affective atmospheres Creating an affective atmosphere: on collective belonging Soaking up an atmosphere: atmospheres as therapeutic Bodily in/capacities: limits of collective belonging?Failing to feel it: on attempts to manipulate affect Conclusion Notes References Therapeutic and therapeia within Orthodox Christianity Finnish Orthodoxy and therapeutic turn Ethnography of the tacit Therapeutic and therapeia in Divine Liturgy Stories of miraculous intervention and recoveries Toward a conclusion Note References Saving the Post-Soviet soul: Religion as therapy in the narratives of Russian-speaking migrant women Explaining immigrant religiosity Narratives of well-being through religion Esther: managing spiritual time Diana: managing vocation Elena: managing femininity From religion as therapy to neoliberal therapeutic religiosity Notes References Coaching for the nation: A new ‘moral and ethical assemblage’ for Israel’s last republican generation Neoliberal subjectivity and the critique of therapeutic culture The last republican generation: between coaching and hagshama Transforming oneself in order to contribute to society Collectivistic entrepreneurship: fostering individual change in the service of the nation A new moral and ethical assemblage?Notes References The datafication of therapeutic life management: Assembling the self in control society Proactive self-tracking and the therapeutic ethos Data and methods The fragmentary holism of self-tracking Self-tracking as a therapeutic regime of anticipation Therapeutic self-assembly and the politics of self-control Conclusion Acknowledgements Notes References The lure of self-disclosure: App-assisted quantification of mood as therapeutic companionship From writing to swiping; locating mobile app-assisted quantification of mood Assembling mood-tracking apps for depression: the affective economies of DepressApp Therapeutic companionship and its technological imagination Regaining voice The technological imaginaries of therapeutic cultures Notes References No negative vibes: Organizational fun as a practice of social control Offices as therapeutic spaces The ethnographic data The spatiality of fun The ideological dilemmas of play and work Conclusions References ‘Living on a razor blade’: Work and alienation in the narratives of therapeutic engagements The therapeutic spirit of capitalism The unbearable weight of work Getting out and getting away Therapeutic assemblages and hope Acknowledgements References Feminists performing the collective trauma Feminism, therapeutics, and trauma culture The context, material, and methods Producing a mental shelter for the traumatised Performing the trauma in public: being an active and responsible feminist Conclusions: feminist activism as therapeutic politics Acknowledgements Notes References Uncanny experiences as therapeutic events Uncanny experiences: cognitive anomalies or socially significant life events?Materials and method The uncanny and work on the self The uncanny and work on the society The uncanny and work on social relations Conclusion: uncanny experiences as therapeutic events Acknowledgements Notes References Afterword: Life of psy Epistemologies of the therapeutic Category of the therapeutic Selfhoods Assembling the therapeutic assemblage Therapeutic assemblage politics Future research agendas: therapeutic lives References