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  • Publicación
    The Making oThe Making of a “Happy Worker”. Positive Psychology in Neoliberal Organizations
    (Oxford University Press, 2016-12-20) Cabanas Díaz, Edgar; lllouz, Eva; Pugh, Allison J.
    In this work we analyze some of the economic and organizational conditions that help to understand the cultural pervasiveness of the modern idea of happiness and its inherent intertwining with neoliberal ideology. Specifically, we argue that happiness-based repertoires and techniques provided by positive psychologists are reshaping both the meaning and the logic of workers identity. Regarding this, we introduce the idea that Maslow’s “Pyramid of Needs”, on which managerial theory has relied in the last decades, has been completely inverted. We also analyze how individuals use these happiness-based repertoires and techniques to adapt behavioral patterns, self-image and expectations to the emerging demands of personal autonomy as well as the flexibility of networking organizations. This way, while these organizations delegate to workers many of the contingencies derived from work, displacing a great deal of the burden of the market and organizational uncertainty onto individuals themselves, positive psychologists claim to provide instruments that enhance self-control and resilient behavior in order to help individuals thrive in constantly changing, stressful and competitive environments.
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    La vida real en tiempos de la felicidad
    (Alianza, 2018) Pérez Álvarez, Marino; Sánchez González, José Carlos; Cabanas Díaz, Edgar
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    The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures
    (Routledge, 2020) Nehring, Daniel; Madsen, Ole Jacob; Cabanas Díaz, Edgar; Mills, China; Kerrigan, Dylan
    The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures explores central lines of enquiry and seminal scholarship on therapeutic cultures, popular psychology, and the happiness industry. Bringing together studies of therapeutic cultures from sociology, anthropology, psychology, education, politics, law, history, social work, cultural studies, development studies, and American Indian studies, it adopts a consciously global focus, combining studies of the psychologisation of social life from across the world. Thematically organised, it offers historical accounts of the growing prominence of therapeutic discourses and practices in everyday life, before moving to consider the construction of self-identity in the context of the diffusion of therapeutic discourses in connection with the global spread of capitalism. With attention to the ways in which emotional language has brought new problematisations of the dichotomy between the normal and the pathological, as well as significant transformations of key institutions, such as work, family, education and religion, it examines emergent trends in therapeutic culture and explores the manner in which the advent of new therapeutic technologies, the political interest in happiness, and the radical privatisation and financialisation of social life converge to remake self-identities and modes of everyday experience. Finally, the book features the work of scholars who have foregrounded the historical and contemporary implication of psychotherapeutic practices in processes of globalisation and colonial and postcolonial modes of social organisation. Presenting agenda-setting research to encourage interdisciplinary and international dialogue and foster the development of a distinctive new field of social research, The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in the advance of therapeutic discourses and practices in an increasingly psychologised society.