Assembling Therapeutics

Suvi Salmenniemi is Professor of Sociology at the University of Turku, Finland. Johanna Nurmi is a postdoctoral researcher in Sociology at the University of Turku, Finland.Inna Perheentupa is currently finalising her doctoral dissertation in Sociology at the University of Turku, Finland.Harley Bergroth is currently finalising his doctoral dissertation in Sociology at the University of Turku, Finland.

• 1. From Culture to Assemblages: An Introduction 2. Assembling Mindful Bodies: Mindfulness as a Universal ‘Laboratory of Practice’ 3. Affective Assemblages: Atmospheres and Therapeutic Knowledge Production in/through the Researcher-body 4. Therapeutic and Therapeia within Orthodox Christianity 5. Saving the Post-Soviet Soul: Religion as Therapy in the Narratives of Russian-speaking Migrant Women 6. Coaching for the Nation: A New ‘Moral and Ethical Assemblage’ for Israel’s Last Republican Generation 7. The Datafication of Therapeutic Life Management: Assembling the Self in Control Society 8. The Lure of Self-disclosure: App-assisted Quantification of Mood as Therapeutic Companionship 9. No Negative Vibes: Organisational Fun as a Practice of Social Control 10. ‘Living on a Razor Blade’: Work and Alienation in the Narratives of Therapeutic Engagements 11. Feminists Performing the Collective Trauma in Contemporary Russia 12. Uncanny Experiences as Therapeutic Events Afterword: Life of Psy

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