The cultural work of office charisma: maintaining professional power in psychotherapy

Crăciun, Mariana

doi:10.1007/s11186-016-9273-z

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“…The dynamics of this active attributional process thus give life to Searle's notion that certain speech acts are not merely descriptive, in the sense of being solely referential toward preexisting states of being. Rather, speech acts can be operative "declarations [that] bring about some alteration in the status or condition of the referred to object or objects solely in virtue of the fact that the declaration has been successfully performed" (Searle 1975:358-61; for debates and alternative formulations of this idea, see Austin [1955Austin [ ] 1975Butler 1997;Derrida 1977;Goffman 1959; for current applications, see Craciun 2016;Reed 2013aReed , 2013b. Whether it is a judge pronouncing a defendant "guilty" or a couple's first reciprocal utterance of "I love you," statements can have a promissory nature that works to create a new reality, a new form of relationship.…”

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Max Weber’s Disciples: Theorizing the Charismatic Aristocracy

Joosse

2017

Sociological Theory

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While several studies have explored the interactional dynamics of charismatic power, most have neglected the role of what Weber termed the charismatic aristocracy. This article revives the classical concept to respond to contemporary calls for performative, followercentric approaches to charisma. Specifically, the charismatic aristocracy is placed at the center of an analysis of a reiterative moment in charismatization: when influential followers generate content for the emerging charismatic persona. In these germinal moments, the dialogical nature of charisma is most clear, precisely because it is then that charismatic leaders often are not themselves confident in their status and can be found responding to instructional cues-indeed following the lead-of those positioning themselves as obsequious followers. Drawing on 10 years of observations, multistage interviews, and media collections, I provide an interactionist account of the charismatic emergence of John de Ruiter, leader of a successful new religious movement. I conclude by tabling a model that conceives of the charismatic aristocracy as an important fulcrum for expectation, affectation, and recognition in charismatic interactions.

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Max Weber’s Disciples: Theorizing the Charismatic Aristocracy

Joosse

2017

Sociological Theory

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“…The payment for psychoanalytic treatment that I analyze in this article has some of the features of health care in terms of being a peculiar service, but has its particularities that distinguishes it from doctors, hospitals, hospices, or fertility clinics (Brown, 2021 ; Craciun, 2016 , 2019 ; Livne, 2019 ; Reich, 2016 ). Among these, the most salient are the comparatively personalized character of payment (with low mediation and relatively blurry calculation), and the (flexible) theoretical apparatus that psychoanalysts share, which provide several meanings for the patient’s payment.…”

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“… 1 A note on terminology: Psychoanalyst is a somewhat contested term, so there is no full agreement of who can call him or herself a psychoanalyst. It often requires training and affiliation in a psychoanalytic institute (Craciun, 2016 ). An interviewee for this research, for example, said that a psychology degree does not make you a psychoanalyst, but the clinical practice does.…”

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This is a handcraft: valuation, morality, and the social meanings of payments for psychoanalysis

Fridman

2021

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This article examines valuation and payment practices of psychoanalysts in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Psychoanalysts do not use explicit sliding scales but rather reach an agreement about fees in conversation with the patient. This negotiation is conducted with some principles of gift-giving, where parties try to give more, rather than through competitive bargaining (an inverted bazaar). Drawing on the sociology of money, morals and markets, and valuation studies literatures, I distinguish four factors to explain this: 1) Some formally produced prices as well as market mechanisms shape benchmarks for fees, but the peculiar service psychologists offer (which makes quality judgments hard), the way patients and therapists are matched, and the lack of public information about prices allow for high flexibility in price-setting; these are structural factors that remain unsaid in the conversation on fees. 2) A professional narrative that highlights a responsibility towards patients that should not be contaminated by economic interest. 3) Psychoanalysts’ elaborations on the meanings of the payment, which should reflect the uniqueness of each patient and the bond analyst-patient and symbolize the patient’s commitment to treatment, involving a cost and a loss beyond the economic. 4) The prevalence of cash, face-to-face payment without intermediaries, which helps desacralize the analyst and disentangle the session from the rest of the economic life of the analyst, but impedes evading moralization of the transaction. Payments in psychoanalysis are delicate arrangements, and analysts often stress about valuation and payments. They have to be careful to ensure this flexibility results in morally acceptable transactions.

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“…In these accounts, authority is taken for granted or assumed to follow from professionals’ elevated social status. However, skirmishes with clients illustrate skepticism, distrust, or hostility toward professional authority or expertise (Craciun, 2016; Cross & Swart, 2021; Sandholtz, Chung, & Waisberg, 2019; Toth, 2015). Segments of the population deny facts agreed upon by scientific professionals, including evolution and climate change (Porter, Kuhn, & Nerlich, 2018).…”

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Feeling Rule Management and Relational Authority: Fostering patient compliance in palliative care consultations

Mukherjee

Thomas

2022

Organization Studies

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Once conferred by jurisdictions, hierarchies, or credentials, professional authority is now considered relational and probabilistic, drawing attention to actions that professionals can take to encourage client compliance. In this paper, we use ethnographic observations of palliative care consultations to show that professionals suggest feeling rules that correct patients’ lay understandings and in doing so facilitate compliance. Palliative care professionals suggested three corrective feeling rules that validate patients’ emotions and reattribute them to circumstances aligned with professionals’ expert recommendations for care: that patients should fear curative treatment, that patients should hope for pain relief, and that patients and family members should feel guilty for prolonging misery. We argue that authority depends, in part, on professionals’ ability to manage broader feeling rules instead of individual emotions. Given that feeling rule management involves altering meanings of what is considered appropriate, we contend that professionals’ symbolic power and emotional capital underpin their authority in the professional-client encounter.

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The cultural work of office charisma: maintaining professional power in psychotherapy

Cited by 11 publications

References 61 publications

Max Weber’s Disciples: Theorizing the Charismatic Aristocracy

Max Weber’s Disciples: Theorizing the Charismatic Aristocracy

This is a handcraft: valuation, morality, and the social meanings of payments for psychoanalysis

Feeling Rule Management and Relational Authority: Fostering patient compliance in palliative care consultations

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