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P073


Undoing and redoing the social in psychotherapy [European Network for Psychological Anthropology [ENPA] 
Convenors:
Mayssa Rekhis (University of Gothenburg - EHESS)
Anne Sigfrid Grønseth (Inland Norway University, Lillehammer)
Keir Martin (University of Oslo)
Arsenii Khitrov (University of Oslo)
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Discussant:
Keir Martin (University of Oslo)
Formats:
Panel
Mode:
Face-to-face
Location:
Facultat de Geografia i Història 204
Sessions:
Wednesday 24 July, -, -
Time zone: Europe/Madrid

Short Abstract:

This panel explores how psychotherapy can be envisioned as a social technology that undoes aspects of the social and re-makes them in different ways and at different scales, from the internalised social relations that make up the individual person to the nation as imagined community.

Long Abstract:

The development of psychotherapy as a technology of the self has been widely explored, problematised and theorised in anthropology and the social sciences. In particular it has often been critiqued for a universal understanding of human nature contained within the discrete bounded individual. While this picture may accurately characterise much of twentieth-century psychotherapy, contemporary psychotherapies seem to be more grounded in (and intricate with) different social doing practices and dynamics. Through its roles in the emergence of new social categories, in war rehabilitation and the creation of post-war social imaginaries, in migrant integration and the homogenisation of “host” societies, in feeding collective imaginaries and ideals, and in transformative processes, psychotherapy seems not only to be at the heart of a tension of the social and the personal, but to be actively engaged in resolving it or redrawing its boundaries. By problematising the distinction between inside and outside, between the social and the personal, psychotherapy often remakes the very foundational assumptions of what it is to be social. From redoing the nation as an imagined community to reorganising the internalised social relations that make up the individual person, psychotherapy seems to be reshaping the social.

This panel invites papers that aim to look at how psychotherapy can be envisioned as a social technology that undoes aspects of the social and re-makes them in different ways and at different scales. We invite papers looking at psychotherapeutic engagement with (un)doing and re-doing the social, from a variety of places, perspectives, scales and dimensions.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Wednesday 24 July, 2024, -
Session 2 Wednesday 24 July, 2024, -