Psychologisation in Times of Globalisation

Vos, Jan De

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“…No doubt, this is part of the intrusion of the language of the various sub‐disciplines of psychology into everyday language and life in a more general sense—an intrusion to such an extent that we have been going through (what could be called) a ‘psychologisation’ of significant parts of our lives. In his recent book Psychologisation in times of globalisation (), Jan De Vos offers an insightful (and at times disturbing) analysis of the all‐encompassing intrusion of psychology in all aspects of our human existence. The discourse of psychology, he argues, ‘has invaded in an unprecedented way companies, advertising, culture, politics, up to our social and family life’ (, p. 1).…”

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“…In his recent book Psychologisation in times of globalisation (), Jan De Vos offers an insightful (and at times disturbing) analysis of the all‐encompassing intrusion of psychology in all aspects of our human existence. The discourse of psychology, he argues, ‘has invaded in an unprecedented way companies, advertising, culture, politics, up to our social and family life’ (, p. 1). The ‘psy‐discourses’, as he calls them, ‘are becoming increasingly hegemonic as they furnish the human being with particular signifiers and particular discursive schemes (assigning particular positions) with which to look upon itself and its world’ (ibid., p. 2).…”

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What All Parents Need to Know? Exploring the Hidden Normativity of the Language of Developmental Psychology in Parenting

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Suissa²

2012

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In this article we focus on how the language of developmental psychology shapes our conceptualisations and understandings of childrearing and of the parent-child relationship. By analysing some examples of contemporary research, policy and popular literature on parenting and parenting support in the UK and Flanders, we explore some of the ways in which normative assumptions about parenthood and upbringing are imported into these areas through the language of developmental psychology. We go on to address the particular attraction of developmental psychology in the field of parenting and upbringing within our current cultural context. Drawing on the work of (among others) Zygmunt Bauman, we will show how developmental psychology, as one of the instruments that contributes to a breaking down of our existential condition into a series of well-defined, and thus apparently manageable, tasks and categories, displaces rather than confronts the possibly limitless depth of the enormity of the reality of 'being a parent'. INTRODUCTIONThe language of developmental psychology has become part of our everyday way of speaking about childrearing and the parent-child relationship. No doubt, this is part of the intrusion of the language of the various sub-disciplines of psychology into everyday language and life in a more general sense-an intrusion to such an extent that we have been going through (what could be called) a 'psychologisation' of significant parts of our lives. In his recent book Psychologisation in times of globalisation (2012), Jan De Vos offers an insightful (and at times disturbing) analysis of the all-encompassing intrusion of psychology in all aspects of our human existence. The discourse of psychology, he argues, 'has invaded in an bs_bs_banner

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What All Parents Need to Know? Exploring the Hidden Normativity of the Language of Developmental Psychology in Parenting

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Suissa²

2012

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“…My level of ambition is not however to capture the spirit of the times with a capital S. The objective is to problematise a dimension of the contemporary age, the phenomena often referred to as psychologisation (cf. De Vos, ), here specified and understood through the notion of « the therapeutic ethos », which has had an impact on Western culture in recent decades.…”

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Psychologisation and Critique in Modern‐day Western Culture

Madsen

2014

Social & Personality Psych

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The paper reflects on the advancement of the psychologisation of Western society through the notion of «the therapeutic ethos» and discusses political and moral implications of its “triumph”. It is argued that the attempt to exorcise a “therapeutic Zeitgeist” showcases the problems of critique of contemporary culture. The Zeitgeist reveals itself as much in the tools of critique as the objective of critique. I therefore conclude that popular critical methods like discourse analysis have itself become a hegemonic discourse, which rarely equals its philosophical originator Michel Foucault's imaginative radical ambition.

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“…Psychology has become a discipline that shapes peoples’ lives, and the psychology which has developed in the English‐speaking world has become a global force. This is the stuff of “psychologisation”, and it has been part of contemporary globalisation (De Vos, ). As it connects more and more with everyday, psychological experience it provides a discursive frame through which we speak about and make sense of what we are doing, including how we vote, including how we voted here in June.…”

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Psychology, Europe, and Beyond

Parker

2016

Psychotherapy and Politics International

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This paper asks what psychology might tell us about Europe and the way in which we in Britain voted in the Brexit referendum on 23 June 2016. I look back at five examples of psychological discourse that claimed to help us understand what we were thinking and feeling as we weighed up how to vote. The key question is how we might refuse where psychology leads us in order to find some alternative ways of thinking for ourselves. I argue that those who argued for Brexit or Brussels both thought they knew well what was good for us. Instead, we need to go well beyond psychology, to psychoanalysis, to discover why they are wrong.I work as a psychoanalyst, and I am an academic psychologist, as well as being a political activist, a Marxist in fact. So I live in three worlds three contradictory worlds which sometimes leak into each other. I hear some things about politics and what they mean and feel like to people in my work, and I can see psychological and psychoanalytic ideas increasingly being mobilised in political debate. Those ideas were mobilised around the question of Britain in Europe and how we would vote in the referendum on 23 June 2016.Much of the psychological speculation related to the referendum was bound up with prediction, with trying to work out how people would behave when they went into the voting booths, with what they might be thinking and, of course, with what they were feeling. And it was usually about other people, not about the people making the predictions. In that respect, psychological discourse is staying true to the way the discipline of psychology has operated since it was formed at the end of the 19th century in Europe, or, more importantly, the way psychology was instituted as an academic discipline and professional practice in the United States and then the rest of the English-speaking world in the 20th century. It was then that it became what we understand psychology to be today. Psychology students are often taught first of all not to think about themselves, not to explore their own feelings, but to focus on the behaviour of others, the nonpsychologists, and they are taught to think of their research or practice as concerned with "prediction and control". That phrase "prediction and control" became the catch-cry for academic and clinical psychology in Britain, for example, in the middle of the 20th century, underpinning what was called the "scientist-practitioner" model.Over the years there have been many attempts by psychology to challenge and unravel that aim of predicting and controlling the behaviour, thoughts, and emotions of others, with some success.

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Psychologisation in Times of Globalisation

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What All Parents Need to Know? Exploring the Hidden Normativity of the Language of Developmental Psychology in Parenting

What All Parents Need to Know? Exploring the Hidden Normativity of the Language of Developmental Psychology in Parenting

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