Befreiung des Subjekts, Management des Selbst. Therapeutisierungsprozesse im deutschsprachigen Raum seit den 1960er Jahren

Elberfeld, Jens

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“…What benefits did they see in defending the method in public (Ramsby, 1972), or in referring to sensitivity training in the marketing of their companies?10 Jens Elberfeld, who has commented on the humanization and democratization of work life in 1970s West Germany, argues that these reforms were driven exclusively by the ideological and political interests of the labor movement and decoupled from economic aspirations. He also states that they were generally counteracted by employers (Elberfeld, 2015, p. 73). As the case of sensitivity training in Sweden reveals, however, both SAF and the business sector instead seem to have embraced the ideal of democratic, “human,” and emotionally satisfying organizations.…”

Section: Creating Human Capital and Flexible Organizationsmentioning

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“…According to this narrative, the psychologically liberating practices traveled “from hippie to yuppie”: the once politically radical effort to liberate people through a collective emancipatory project paved the way for later individualistic and economized manifestations of the original ideal (Binkley, 2007, pp. 13–15; Eitler & Elberfeld, 2015, p. 22; Elberfeld, 2015; pp. 80f.…”

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The crying boss: Activating “human resources” through sensitivity training in 1970s Sweden

Tillema

2023

J History Behavioral Science

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This article examines the introduction of “sensitivity training” to 1970s Swedish work life. Drawing upon a range of empirical materials, I explore the politics that were involved in the process of translating and adapting this group dynamic method to the Swedish context and consider how its proponents argued for its value. By approaching sensitivity training as an attempt to govern, shape, and regulate both human beings and the work organizations of which they were a part, I argue that sensitivity training presents an unexpectedly early example of a governing rationality that has elsewhere been described and theorized as “neoliberal.” The fact that sensitivity training was established in Swedish work life already in the early 1970s thus challenges the historiography of neoliberal modes of government, which have elsewhere been associated with a neoliberal shift in state policies occurring in the 1980s and 1990s. The article demonstrates how emotionally liberating practices in the late 1960s and early 1970s were embraced by some of the most politically influential actors in contemporary Swedish society, such as the corporate sector and the trade unions. As blue‐collar trade unions and social democrats voiced increasingly far‐reaching demands concerning workplace democracy and improved workplace conditions, advocates of sensitivity training presented their method as crucial to the process of “democratizing” and “humanizing” Swedish work life. Intimately associated with the new therapies of humanistic psychology, sensitivity training was used within the corporate sector to foster a more emotional and authentic leadership style that would embrace the values of emotional awareness, self‐expression, and self‐actualization. The crying boss emerged in this context as a key figure in the project of creating a “democratic” and psychologically satisfying organization. Yet, sensitivity training was also described as a means for companies to make better use of what was now asserted as their most important economic asset: the human being. From the outset, the idealistic vision of an emotionally liberated, democratic workplace was thus entangled with a specific kind of economic rationality, in which the emotionally liberated, self‐actualizing individual emerged as a capital or asset that would be better utilized if the organization allowed—even encouraged—employees to engage in their own well‐being and self‐optimization.

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Section: Creating Human Capital and Flexible Organizationsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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The crying boss: Activating “human resources” through sensitivity training in 1970s Sweden

Tillema

2023

J History Behavioral Science

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“…Gründe dafür könnten sowohl in einem stärkeren Einfluss von US-amerikanischen Schulen und Verfahren auf die Entwicklung der psychotherapeutischen Landschaft der damaligen BRD [vgl. 30 , S. 57] als auch in der Implementierung der Richtlinien-Psychotherapie ab 1967 liegen, in der zuerst die psychoanalytisch begründeten Verfahren in die kassenärztliche Versorgung aufgenommen wurden [vgl. 31 , S. 107] und die auch im Fokus der psychotherapeutischen Forschung standen.…”

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Psychotherapeutische Fachliteratur der DDR und BRD: Eine vergleichende Zitationsanalyse

Storch

Schneider

Kirschner

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Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol

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Zusammenfassung Ziel Erste Hypothesen zur wissenschaftlichen Rezeption von psychotherapeutischer Literatur aus der DDR und der Sowjetunion in einem Psychotherapieliteratur-Korpus der BRD (Praxis der Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik 1979-1990) sollten geprüft werden. Außerdem sollten inhaltliche Schwerpunkte der identifizierten wissenschaftlichen Communities verglichen werden. Methodik Es wurde eine bibliometrische und netzwerkanalytische Untersuchung von Zitationsbeziehungen sowie eine qualitative Inhaltsanalyse der Rezeption von DDR-Literatur und der thematischen Schwerpunkte der identifizierten wissenschaftlichen Communities in Literaturkorpora aus Ost und West durchgeführt. Ergebnisse Psychotherapeutische Literatur der DDR wird im untersuchten BRD-Korpus kaum zitiert. Inhaltlich wird diese Literatur nicht tiefergehend in die wissenschaftliche Argumentation des BRD-Korpus eingebunden. Die bekanntesten Vertreter*innen der DDR-Psychotherapie(-forschung) werden im BRD-Korpus gar nicht zitiert. Es lassen sich thematische Überschneidungen in beiden Korpora identifizieren, allerdings spielen DDR-spezifische Themen inhaltlich keine Rolle im BRD-Korpus.

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The Emotional Politics of the Alternative Left

Häberlen

2018

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Befreiung des Subjekts, Management des Selbst. Therapeutisierungsprozesse im deutschsprachigen Raum seit den 1960er Jahren

Cited by 12 publications

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The crying boss: Activating “human resources” through sensitivity training in 1970s Sweden

The crying boss: Activating “human resources” through sensitivity training in 1970s Sweden

Psychotherapeutische Fachliteratur der DDR und BRD: Eine vergleichende Zitationsanalyse

The Emotional Politics of the Alternative Left

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