Julie Tilsen: Personal Responsibility, Inc., Kartoniert / Broschiert
Personal Responsibility, Inc.
- How Psychotherapy Turns Society's Problems into Yours
- Publisher:
- OR Books, 08/2026
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781682194416
- Item number:
- 12445376
- Volume:
- 170 Pages
- Release date:
- 13.8.2026
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
A powerful critique of how therapy reinforces neoliberal values, and a visionary call to reclaim collective responsibility in the face of systemic distress.
Personal Responsibility, Inc. offers a one-of-a-kind investigation into psychotherapy's complicity with the insidious and harmful effects of neoliberalism on individuals, relationships, and society.
Increasingly, therapy functions as an arm of neoliberal ideology---reinforcing its imperatives of personal responsibility, individualism, and relentless self-improvement. These values compel people to search inward for solutions to problems created and sustained by the system itself.
But this book goes beyond critique. It presents a vision---and concrete practices---for resisting neoliberalism's pressure to seek individual fixes for structural problems.
It's time for therapists and therapy-users alike to stop blaming non-normative brains, negative thinking, or poor coping skills for the widespread suffering we experience in a world on the brink. Instead, we must name neoliberalism for what it is, reclaim our shared humanity, and begin transforming distress into collective awareness and action.
Written by a practicing psychotherapist for an engaged, non-specialist audience, Personal Responsibility, Inc. is not a pitch for another therapeutic method. It's an uncompromising call for a cultural course correction---and a starting point for real change.