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Deconstructing Scandinavia's "Achievement Generation"

A Youth Mental Health Crisis?

By: Ole Jacob Madsen

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Deconstructing Scandinavia's "Achievement Generation"

A Youth Mental Health Crisis?

By: Ole Jacob Madsen

In this book, Professor Ole Jacob Madsen analyses the implications of Scandinavia's current concern for the mental health problems of adolescents, said to be struggling in the face of increasing demands for achievement and success. It critically examines our understanding of this so-called “achievement generation”, questioning whether today’s youth are really worse off than previous generations and how we have come to believe that this is so. The author’s wide-ranging investigation draws on a large body of research, as well as considering socio-political, historical and regional factors that might be affecting the resilience and mental health among young people. It also provides original psycholinguistic studies of popular media concepts associated with these issues including: “the achievement generation”, “pathological perfection” and “the good girl syndrome”. Deconstructing Scandinavia’s “Achievement Generation” presents an engaging contribution to key debates around therapeutic culture and society in the 21st century. It will appeal to students and scholars of critical and social psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy; as well as to those working in education, social work and mental health.

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3030725553

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The Psychologization of Society

On the Unfolding of the Therapeutic in Norway

By: Ole Jacob Madsen

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The Psychologization of Society

On the Unfolding of the Therapeutic in Norway

By: Ole Jacob Madsen

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 currently subjected to a psychological worldview or "therapeutic ethos," Madsen examines an array of spheres such as media, law, religion, self-help literature and cosmetic surgery to shed light on the ways in which the therapeutic ethos, rather than simply "triumphing" over them, actually blends in with regional norms and values. A study of the psychological imprint on Western countries as a form of the global democratisation of psychologised self-care, this book explores the boundless struggle to be the "best version of yourself" in contemporary neoliberal culture. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, psychology and cultural and media studies with interests in therapeutic discourses and paradoxes of health.

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Routledge

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1351118323

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The Therapeutic Turn

How psychology altered Western culture

By: Ole Jacob Madsen

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The Therapeutic Turn

How psychology altered Western culture

By: Ole Jacob Madsen

In what ways has psychology become more influential in Western society? In this book author Ole Jacob Madsen considers the notion of a ‘Therapeutic Turn’ in Western culture – the tendency for psychology to permeate ever new spheres within society. The Therapeutic Turn evaluates the increasing prevalence of psychology in several areas of Western society: Western consumer culture, contemporary Christianity, self-help, sport and politics. Madsen proposes that there are problematic aspects to this development which are seldom recognised due to a widely held assumption that ‘the more psychology, the better for everyone’. A recurring concern with psychological solutions is that they often provide individual solutions to structural problems. As a result, psychologists may be inadvertently increasing the burden on the shoulders of the people they are meant to help and, at the same time, our capacity to understand individual suffering in the light of major historical and political changes in society is becoming increasingly clouded. The Therapeutic Turn presents an accessible and engaging critique of the influence of psychology within Western society. It will appeal to a broad audience of students, academics and lay readers interested in this aspect of modernity and contemporary society, and it will also be of great interest to practitioners and therapists.

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1317699904

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Optimizing the Self

Social representations of self-help

By: Ole Jacob Madsen

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Optimizing the Self

Social representations of self-help

By: Ole Jacob Madsen

This book provides an analysis of the social representations of leading self-help genres, including neurolinguistic programming, cognitive self-help therapy, mindfulness, self-management, self-esteem, self-leadership and self-control. Exploring the globalised therapeutic culture of today, the book argues that psychology as ‘science’ is often abandoned to aid the individual pursuit for self-realization and self-optimization. Opposing the view that self-help culture is external to psychology, Madsen argues that it is firmly embedded within psychology, playing an important role in people’s lives. Each chapter traces and critically interprets a range of self-help philosophies and techniques, examining the claims of self-help literature to represent the most innovative psychological, medical or neurobiological research. Discussing each genre in turn, chapters examine key research alongside self-help literature to explore the effectiveness and impact of leading self-help genres in various social contexts and environments. The book offers a contemporary critical overview of issues concerning self-help, combining critical psychology with the theory of social representation to provide a broad perspective on self-help as a valid psychology. Optimizing the Self will be of interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of social representation, critical and cultural psychology and theory, clinical psychology, and the sociology of culture and science. The book will also be of use to critical and cultural psychologists and theorists, as well as clinical psychologists.

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Deconstructing Scandinavia's "Achievement Generation"

A Youth Mental Health Crisis?

By: Ole Jacob Madsen

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A Youth Mental Health Crisis?

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Life Skills and Adolescent Mental Health

Can Kids Be Taught to Master Life?

By: Ole Jacob Madsen

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Life Skills and Adolescent Mental Health

Can Kids Be Taught to Master Life?

By: Ole Jacob Madsen

Can school teach us to master life? This book confronts what the author sees as an ongoing trend in many Western democracies where citizens are increasingly being held accountable for their health and happiness. The author believes that the introduction of life skills in school shows a tendency to place more responsibility on the individual rather than address fundamental societal flaws that really should be solved politically. It examines how such responsibility to psychologically deal with these problems affects our mental health and quality of life. This book questions the fundamentals of the life mastery curriculum where we might be risking the creation of just another arena where children have to perform, challenging readers to evaluate more closely the premises, consequences and limitations of life mastery. The book, one of the first to question ‘life mastery’ as an achievable goal with critical reviews of the 21st century skills movement, will be of interest to psychologists, school counsellors, teachers, students, politicians, and any reader evaluating school curriculums in relation to the decline in youth and adolescent mental health.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000926583

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The World of Worm: Physician, Professor, Antiquarian, and Collector, 1588-1654

By: Ole Peter Grell

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The World of Worm: Physician, Professor, Antiquarian, and Collector, 1588-1654

By: Ole Peter Grell

This monograph offers the first comprehensive treatment of the multi-faceted scholarly interests of Ole Worm, professor of medicine at the University of Copenhagen. Scholarship about Worm has focused mainly on Worm’s collecting and the creation of his cabinet of curiosity, the Museum Wormianum, resulting in Worm’s rationale for his research being largely overlooked. Worm shared his many interests with a number of other physicians of the age, but in terms of breadth, few matched the variety of his concerns. For a man who considered himself first and foremost a physician and anatomist, his interests in Paracelsianism and collecting can at times be baffling, while his interests in antiquarianism, runes, and chronology strike the modern reader as at odds with his medical and natural philosophical interests. It is important to comprehend that Worm’s multi-faceted interests in the created world were underpinned by his Lutheran, Melanchthonian natural philosophy, and this served to unify all Worm’s scholarly undertakings, inquiries, and experiments in the single aim of reaching a better understanding of God’s creation, the Book of Nature.

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1000598098

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The Psychologization of Society

On the Unfolding of the Therapeutic in Norway

By: Ole Jacob Madsen

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On the Unfolding of the Therapeutic in Norway

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Handbook of Immunoblotting of Proteins

By: Ole J. Bjerrum,Niels H. H. Heegaard, M.D.

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Handbook of Immunoblotting of Proteins

By: Ole J. Bjerrum,Niels H. H. Heegaard, M.D.

This volume provides complete details of the various immunoblotting procedures. It serves as the researcher's companion in the laboratory, with detailed, step by step descriptions and ready-to-use recipes. All technical aspects and important experimental applications are thoroughly described. Volume II focuses on experimental and clinical applications, including: Monoclonal antibodies Mapping of epitopes Characterization of carbohydrate antigens Methods of native blotting and isolation of antibodies directly from blots Employing xeno-, allo-, and auto-antibodies

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CRC Press

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0849305500

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The Therapeutic Turn

How psychology altered Western culture

By: Ole Jacob Madsen

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How psychology altered Western culture

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1317699912

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Optimizing the Self

Social representations of self-help

By: Ole Jacob Madsen

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Social representations of self-help

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Book's by Ole Jacob Madsen

Deconstructing Scandinavia's "Achievement Generation"

Deconstructing Scandinavia's "Achievement Generation"

The Psychologization of Society

The Psychologization of Society

The Therapeutic Turn

The Therapeutic Turn

Optimizing the Self

Optimizing the Self

Deconstructing Scandinavia's "Achievement Generation"

Deconstructing Scandinavia's "Achievement Generation"

Life Skills and Adolescent Mental Health

Life Skills and Adolescent Mental Health

The World of Worm: Physician, Professor, Antiquarian, and Collector, 1588-1654

The World of Worm: Physician, Professor, Antiquarian, and Collector, 1588-1654

The Psychologization of Society

The Psychologization of Society

Handbook of Immunoblotting of Proteins

Handbook of Immunoblotting of Proteins

The Therapeutic Turn

The Therapeutic Turn

Optimizing the Self

Optimizing the Self

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