WORKING THE DIFFERENCE

CARR, E SUMMERSON

ISBN 10: 0226827623 / ISBN 13: 9780226827629

Editore: University of Chicago Press, 2023

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Titolo: WORKING THE DIFFERENCE

Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press

Data di pubblicazione: 2023

Legatura: Brossura

Condizione: NEW

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A history of motivational interviewing and what its rise reveals about how cultural forms emerge and spread.

Motivational interviewing (MI) is a professional practice, a behavioral therapy, and a self-professed conversation style that encourages clients to talk themselves into change. Originally developed to treat alcoholics, MI quickly spread into a variety of professional fields including corrections, medicine, and sanitation. In Working the Difference, E. Summerson Carr focuses on the training and dissemination of MI to explore how cultural forms—and particularly forms of expertise—emerge and spread. The result is a compelling analysis of the American preoccupations at MI’s core, from democratic autonomy and freedom of speech to Protestant ethics and American pragmatism.

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E. Summerson Carr is associate professor of social work and anthropology at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Scripting Addiction: The Politics of Therapeutic Talk and American Sobriety and co-editor of Scale: Discourse and Dimensions of Social Life.