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Virtual recovery: Governing mental h...

Thompson, Riki.

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Virtual recovery: Governing mental health and self-improvement online.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Virtual recovery: Governing mental health and self-improvement online./
Author:	Thompson, Riki.
Description:	229 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Sandra Silberstein.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-08A.
Subject:	Language, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3275917
ISBN:	9780549164135

Virtual recovery: Governing mental health and self-improvement online.
Thompson, Riki.

Virtual recovery: Governing mental health and self-improvement online. - 229 p.

Adviser: Sandra Silberstein.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2007.

This dissertation argues that mental health has become an object of governmentality (Foucault), in which current mental health discourses normalize ongoing disorder and promote personal responsibility for attaining an idealized state of wellness. The broadening of mental health disorder categories has generated growing demand for psychotherapy and pharmaceutical products alongside a hegemonization of consumer-oriented mental health discourses. As mental health discourses increasingly target the general population, the project of the self (Giddens) becomes a widespread endeavor in which individuals engage in self-improvement practices that entail anxiety-producing, time-consuming, and exhausting emotional labor in the quest for health and wellness.

ISBN: 9780549164135Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018089
Language, General.

Virtual recovery: Governing mental health and self-improvement online.
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