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The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351233392, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. This volume examines the ways in which people engage with therapeutic practices, such as life coaching, mindfulness, complementary and alternative medicine, sex and relationship counselling, spiritual healing and self-tracking. It investigates how human and non-human actors, systems of thought and practice are assembled and interwoven in therapeutic engagements, and traces the situated, material and political dimensions of these engagements. By focusing on lived experiences through ethnographically informed case studies, the book elucidates the diverse forms, meanings and embodied effects of therapeutic engagements in different settings, as well as their potential for both oppressive and subversive social change. In this way, Assembling Therapeutics contributes to our understanding of multiple modes of healing, self-knowledge and power in contemporary societies.
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Keywords
- alternative healing
- alternative therapies
- Complementary therapies, healing & health
- Everyday Life
- Harley Bergroth
- Health & personal development
- Identity
- Inna Perheentupa
- Johanna Nurmi
- life coaching
- material aspects
- Materiality
- Meaning
- Mind, Body, Spirit
- mindfulness
- Political aspects
- Politics
- Power
- sbjectivity
- Self-help
- self-help literature
- self-tracking
- Social change
- Society & culture: general
- Society & Social Sciences
- Sociology
- Sociology & anthropology
- spiritual aspects
- Suvi Salmenniemi
- therapeutic
- therapeutic assemblages
- therapeutic practices
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DOI: 10.4324/9781351233392Editions