Deconstructing Scandinavia's "Achievement Generation"

Ole Jacob Madsen is Professor of Cultural and Community Psychology at the University of Oslo, Norway. His previous works include: The Therapeutic Turn: How Psychology Altered Western Culture (2014), Optimizing the Self: Social Representations of Self-Help (2015) and The Psychologization of Society: On the Unfolding of the Therapeutic in Norway (2018) and The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures (2020).

• Chapter 1 - Introduction.- Chapter 2 - The Pathologies of Modernity.- Chapter 3 - The Pathologies of Late Modernity.- Chapter 4 - Young, privileged and sick.- Chapter 5 - Youth under pressure.- Chapter 6 - Social representations.- Chapter 7 - Self-fulfilling prophecies.- Chapter 8 - The Paradox of Health.- Chapter 9 - Conclusion.