The Banality of Psychology

Roy, Mélissa; Rivest, Marie-Pier; Moreau, Nicolas

doi:10.1093/sw/sww071

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“…In these programmes, psychotherapists and psychologists perform the role of experts, and the process of soul-searching becomes the focal point displayed for the audiences. The 'psychotherapeutisation' and 'psychologisation' tendency in the media is in line with the corresponding ideological changes in the helping professions, such as a shift from mediation to therapeutic counselling in work with families (Kollind 2002) and increasing use of psychologically informed interventions in social work (Roy, Rivest and Moreau 2016). It is also connected (and contributing) to the general trend of psychological and psychotherapeutic theories penetrating everyday life (Furedi 2004) and reasoning of laypeople (Linde 1987;Moscovici 2008).…”

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“And how old are you?”: Age reference as an interpretative device in radio counselling

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Jacobsson

2016

Journal of Aging Studies

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“…Besides this, helping professionals, such as social workers, may be encouraged to reflect upon the psychologically informed character of their professional approaches and practices (e.g. Roy, Rivest and Moreau 2016). My hope is that this thesis may inspire such professional reflection.…”

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“And how old are you?”: Age reference as an interpretative device in radio counselling

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2016

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“…If yoga therapy is to "remain viable" in the Western world, 39 we acknowledge that the evidence-based objectivist model (and, by default, standardization) provides a platform to demonstrate how and why integrative therapies have a legitimate place in our healthcare system. Simultaneously, such a model allows for the development of a common language "at both community and institutional levels," 42 thereby improving communication between groups of professionals from the allopathic and complementary communities. However, to acknowledge the broader social implications of yoga therapy interventions, social work researchers need to consider an epistemological shift to "promote richer, more complex types of knowledge" 30 that resonates more closely with the nondualistic approaches rooted in social work 43 and yoga therapy.…”

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What Is Our “Epistemic Responsibility”? Reflections on Social Work’s Orientation in Yoga Therapy Research

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Moreau

2020

International Journal of Yoga Therapy

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The purpose of this article is to explore how the social work discipline could provide a complementary lens through which yoga therapy can be analyzed and evaluated by engaging in knowledge-creation practices and procedures that prioritize the “epistemic responsibility” described by philosopher Lorraine Code. More specifically, by seeking to strategically include often-subjugated types of knowledge and by focusing on redistributing epistemic power to agents that typically have been excluded from epistemic participation in contemporary yoga therapy research, the social work discipline, with its strong commitment to social justice, has the potential to contribute to filling an important gap in scientific literature. We begin by presenting the relevance of the social work perspective in relation to the field of yoga therapy. We next offer a reserved critical analysis of the dominant technical knowledge base that currently informs yoga therapy practice. This analysis highlights the social parameters that may be rendered invisible or left aside when adopting a positivist epistemological lens and justifies how the conceptual apparatus of epistemic responsibility serves as a potential platform for rethinking social work's position and future contributions to the field of yoga therapy. Finally, we mobilize the concept of cultural appropriation to illustrate how striving for epistemic responsibility provides an entry point for addressing the multilevel, complex social processes embedded in yoga therapy practice and research while aiming to capture the many voices—and hence the various truths—implicated in a democratic, reflexive, and inclusive research process.

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“…These notions relate to work on one's self (Vrancken, 2011;Doucet, 2016) and "working at our mental health" (Scott, 2011, p. 7). In other words, self-management can be understood as conforming to the new social normativity because it encourages participants to act by, for and on themselves without relying on external prompts (Moreau, 2009;Roy, Rivest & Moreau, 2017). There was a certain hierarchy of self-management methods in participants' responses.…”

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“If You’re a Parasite, Then You’re Not Normal”

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Previous research in sociology has shown that what is considered as sanity or mental health is described according to a social ideal. Mental health problems have been theorized as a deviance from such norms. Depression, in particular, has been the object of sociological contemplation due to its divergence from a Western social normativity focused on functionality, adaptation and productivity. This research adds to this body of work on depression as a deviation from social norms. It seeks to address a gap within the literature, by exploring the ways in which the “post-depressive” state may be defined in accordance with social norms. As such, it analyzes the links between “post-depression” and normality, from the perspective of individuals having lived with depression. 46 semi-structured interviews were conducted with Canadians individuals who have experienced depression. Results from our content analysis show that the absence of depression was often synonymous with normality and characterized by the following dimensions: a positive attitude; the potential to take action; functionality and performance; self-management; a positive relationship with others; and the notion of meaningful projects. Our results show that participants do not define the absence of depression following psychiatric or clinical indicators, as recorded in the DSM, and that they do not consider it to be a return to an anterior, pre-depression, state. Rather, post-depression is idealized, perceived as a state of unfailing conformity to social expectations and norms.

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The Banality of Psychology

Cited by 10 publications

References 5 publications

“And how old are you?”: Age reference as an interpretative device in radio counselling

“And how old are you?”: Age reference as an interpretative device in radio counselling

What Is Our “Epistemic Responsibility”? Reflections on Social Work’s Orientation in Yoga Therapy Research

“If You’re a Parasite, Then You’re Not Normal”

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