Worked Up Selves: Personal Development Workers, Self-Work and Therapeutic Cultures

✍ Scribed by Elaine Swan (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 267
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Changing Selves....Pages 1-31
History of Working the Self....Pages 32-49
Therapeutic Cultures: Practices of Social Control or Self-Creation?....Pages 50-69
Cultural Representations of Therapeutic Cultures....Pages 70-99
Expert Relations....Pages 100-139
Transformations of the Self....Pages 140-172
Getting in Touch with Their Feelings?....Pages 173-205
Worked Up Selves....Pages 206-224
Back Matter....Pages 225-258

✦ Subjects

Human Resource Management; Behavioral/Experimental Economics; Management

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