Precarity, Trauma, Addiction, and Love in Philosophical Counseling

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvRoss Channing Reed,Dr. Ross Channing Reed

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Language around trauma, anxiety, and burnout is pervasive in our current climate, where it seems like we need superhuman powers just to make it through the day. This book argues that the expectations and living conditions of our society are uniquely destabilizing, producing a “techno-precarious performance self” that markets itself as a product, gets addicted to almost anything, and drives itself to exhaustion. Navigating our way out of this zero-sum game, Ross Channing Reed maintains, will require nothing less than an exploration of our beliefs, values, goals, and the very meanings we attach to life itself. The dismantling of “techno-precarious performance society,” a society rooted in systemic precarity and philosophical nihilism, is absolutely necessary to effectively address our epidemic of trauma and addiction.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-03-19
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt507 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePhilosophical Practice
Antal sidor256
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666934373

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AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Philosophy, Philosophical Counseling, and the Precarious Nature of Modern LivingPart I. Systemic Precarity, Stress, and TraumaChapter 1 What is Precarity?Chapter 2 Precarity, Terror, Stress, and Trauma Part II. Empirical and Conceptual Evidence Linking Systemic Precarity and TraumaChapter 3 Surveillance, Anxiety, and the Futilitarian Entrapment of a Gamed System Chapter 4 Global Annihilation, the Gig Economy, Climate Change, and Desecuritization Part III. Precarity and Trauma in Philosophical CounselingChapter 5 Loneliness, Despair, Chronic Pain, and the Auto-Aggressive Entrepreneurial SelfChapter 6 Addiction, Burnout, and the Impossibility of Consent Chapter 7 Trauma Bonding and the Stockholm Syndrome as Affect Management Chapter 8 Pathological Accommodation and the Boundless Trauma of Hemorrhagic NihilismPart IV. Metaphysical Horror and Precaritization Trauma: Philosophical and Systemic Nihilism and the Quest for Immortality Chapter 9 Metaphysical Horror, Addiction, Hemorrhagic Nihilism, and the Simulacra of the Spectacle Chapter 10 Psychedelics, Ultrarunning, Metaphysical Horror, and Addiction to Synthetic AffectChapter 11 Precarity, Trauma, Addiction, Love: The God Project or the Moral Call of the Other? BibliographyIndex

Reed has made an invaluable contribution to our understanding and healing of systemically-induced illnesses afflicting the developed world. He insightfully examines crises of precarity, stress, trauma, addiction, and meaninglessness that have attained epidemic proportions in our most affluent and technologically-advanced societies. This timely and well-written book provides perceptive analyses of the systemic problems from which these crises arise and propagate. Moreover, it also reinstates the central place of philosophy and its practice as a way of transcending the dehumanizing effects of mechanized health-care, among other soulless institutional providers of essential services.