Working the Difference

Science, Spirit, and the Spread of Motivational Interviewing

AvE. Summerson Carr

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-09-05
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:399 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226827629

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Psykoterapi som behandlingsmetod inom Medicin

Mer om författaren

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.

Recensioner i media

“An ethnography that is both sweeping and meticulously fine-grained as it follows the remarkable dissemination of MI across fields of professional practice. . . . In Working the Difference, Carr brings together a dazzling array of literatures to speak to audiences across multiple anthropological subfields—linguistic, medical, psychological, and sociocultural—as well as practitioner–researchers like her interlocutors. In speaking directly to this latter audience, the author makes a profound contribution to the anthropology of expertise and ethnographic endeavors to ‘study up’ . . . Despite the author's modest self-deprecation about her own Motivational Interviewing skill, Carr's skill as an ethnographic interviewer is on full display.”

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsPrologueIntroduction: Motivating Americans, Defusing DifferenceChapter 1 American Democracy (Or, How to Direct Autonomous Subjects)Chapter 2 American Rhetoric: Therapeutic Performance and the Poetics of Behavior ChangeChapter 3 American Spirit: Presence, Profit, and Professional ReenchantmentChapter 4 American Science: Faith and the Spirited Economy of Evidence-Based PracticeChapter 5 American Pragmatism: Learning to Work the Difference (Or, the Life and Death of MI)Conclusion: Dealing with Difference and the Movement of MethodAcknowledgmentsAppendix: Some Notes on the Study of (In)expertsNotesWorks CitedIndex