'That boy needs therapy' : constructions of psychotherapy in popular song lyrics
| Autor: | Miltiades Hadjiosif, Adrian Coyle |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Psychological Sciences Research Group
050103 clinical psychology Psychoanalysis Psychotherapist 05 social sciences Strict constructionism Popular culture psychology Lyrics 030227 psychiatry Power (social and political) 03 medical and health sciences Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Critical discourse analysis 0302 clinical medicine Popular music discourse analysis popular music psychotherapy social constructionism song lyrics Formerly Health & Social Sciences 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology |
| ISSN: | 1364-2537 1469-5901 |
| Popis: | © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Despite a plethora of academic and clinical descriptions of psychotherapy, less research attention has been focused on the ways in which psychotherapy is talked about and represented in popular culture. This study investigates constructions of psychotherapy in the lyrics of popular songs and identifies the vocabularies, versions and relevant discourses that are invoked or crafted. A critical discourse analysis was applied to 24 songs and yielded three broad themes: ‘Banal therapy’, the ‘Non-therapeutic relationship’ and ‘I know therefore I can’. These discursive objects are examined in light of a constructionist understanding of knowledge and power within a discussion of how their interplay is implicated in the status of psychotherapeutic concepts and practices as ‘expert knowledge’. Some clinical implications are attended to without making claims that this study has identified ontological representations of psychotherapy in popular culture. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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