Beyond Therapeutic Culture in Latin America

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.

• Introduction: From therapeutic culture to therapeutic networks; 1 The theoretical framework: Therapeutic networks as assemblages; 2 The supply side of therapeutic networks: Mobilizing thick and thin actants for wellbeing; 3 On the demand side: Searching wellbeing through interaction with thin actants; 4 Actants and their complexity: Between thinning thick actants and thickening thin actants; 5 Parallel paths toward the autonomization of the self: Between religion and self-help; 6 Complex forms of mediation: Ontological brokers, translators, and bridges; Conclusions: Toward a new theorization of the therapeutic