Watch the Webinar – Therapeutic Cultures: A View from Latin America
Join the authors of the new book Beyond Therapeutic Culture in Latin America: Hybrid Networks in Argentina and Brazil as they examine the global phenomenon of ‘therapeutic culture’ through the experiences of Latin America in this free webinar. Drawn from original research conducted in the region, Beyond Therapeutic Culture in Latin America extends the idea of the therapeutic beyond the classroom to encompass a diversity of practices, both “secular” and “religious,” “modern” and “traditional,” that are deemed as therapeutic by the actors involved. Expect to learn lessons specifically about Latin America but that offer insights for understanding therapeutic cultures everywhere.
The authors of the book, Piroska E. Csúri, Mariano B. Plotkin, and Nicolás Viotti are joined by two editors of the Therapeutic Cultures book series, Edgar Cabanas and Daniel Nehring. The publisher of the book is offering a 20 percent discount (access flyer here) for webinar viewers.
The webinar, which occurred on June 7, 2023, is sponsored by Social Science Space.
Piroska E. Csúri is a lecturer in communication at the Universidad de San Andrés and teaches at the Universidad Nacional de Lanús and in the Postgraduate program of the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires (Argentina). She is the co-editor of Structures in the Mind: Essays on Language, Music and Cognition in Honor of Ray Jackendoff (MIT Press, 2015).
Mariano B. Plotkin is a researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a professor of history at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero. He is the author of Freud in the Pampas (Stanford University Press, 2001) among many other texts on the history of psychoanalysis in Latin America.
Nicolás Viotti is a researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) and a professor at FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales) and at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (Buenos Aires, Argentina). He is the co-author (with Lucia Ariza) of Desconfianzas. Por qué ya no se cree en la Ciencia (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2023).
Edgar Cabanas has a Ph.D. in psychology and is an associate professor at Universidad Camilo José Cela in Madrid. He was a postdoctoral researcher (2014-2016) and adjunct researcher (2016-2018) at the Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, and a visiting scholar, in 2011 and 2013, at the Center for the Study of Rationality at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of Manufacturing Happy Citizens: How the Industry and Science of Happiness Control our Lives (Polity), co-written with Eva Illouz. He is co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures.
Daniel Nehring is a senior lecturer in sociology at Swansea University in the UK. He has extensive research experience in East Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. He is an author or editor of seven books, including his recent of Global Therapeutic Cultures (Routledge, 2020) and Worlds (Routledge, 2019; nominated for the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize (UK) 2020. He is an editor of the Routledge book series Therapeutic Cultures and a founder and convenor of the international academic network Popular Psychology, Self-Help Culture and the Happiness Industry.
