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Understanding Mental Suffering in Performance Society

Explore signs of social pathology and its impact on mental health in contemporary society, examining the Danish Health Authority data from 2017. Delve into the idea of social pathologies reflecting societal norms and lessons.

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Understanding Mental Suffering in Performance Society

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  1. ”It’s hardly enough to do OK – is it?” Mental Suffering in the Performance Society. Anders Petersen

  2. Agenda Setting the scene – what’s on the table? Signs of social pathology in contemporary society? Mental suffering in the performance society – a possible explanation! Quo vadis? Mental Suffering in the Performance Society

  3. Mental Suffering in the Performance Society • Setting the scene – what’s on the table?

  4. Mental Suffering in the Performance Society • Data: The Danish Health Authority – The National Health Profile from 2017.

  5. Mental Suffering in the Performance Society

  6. Mental Suffering in the Performance Society

  7. Mental Suffering in the Performance Society • Signs of social pathology in contemporary society?

  8. Mental Suffering in the Performance Society • The idea underlying the adjunction of the adjective ‘social’ to the substantive ‘pathology’ is that mental pathologies are the product of our social relationships, that they reveal something about our mores and lifestyles, and that there is a moral, social and political lesson to be drawn from this type of pathology (Ehrenberg 2013: 11).

  9. Mental Suffering in the Performance Society • There would be no reason to give thought to potential “diseases” of society if the failures of individual socialization did not generally reflect themselves in behavioural abnormalities of the members of society (Honneth 2014: 690).

  10. Mental Suffering in the Performance Society • Mental suffering in the performance society – a possible explanation!

  11. Mental Suffering in the Performance Society • This is because the modes of regulation are not a choice that each can make in a private way but, rather, a common rule valid for all, social exclusion being the threat to possible offenders. These regulations are based on our societies’”general spirit”: they are the institutions of the self (Ehrenberg 2010: 8).

  12. Mental Suffering in the Performance Society • Flexible, • polyvalent, adaptable, • mobile, connect-able, versatile, • agile, open-minded, friendly, funny, • positive, easy-going, social, brave and robust.

  13. Mental suffering in the Performance Society • We imagine being open to change, being adaptable, as qualities of character needed for free action – the human being free because capable of change (Sennett 1998: 47).

  14. Mental suffering in the Performance Society • A: It is hardly enough to do OK, is it? • B. No – of course not. Everybody knows OK is the same a losing the competition. • C. Yes exactly – we all know that…and we have always been told that it’s the case! • A: And that goes for all we do – especially in school. • Everybody around the table nods…

  15. Mental suffering in the Performance Society • A: I mean, we have all – or at least most of us – experienced stress, anxiety or depression. Or someone in our close social circle has. • B: Yes – it’s normal for us. • C: It is what it is – nothing we can change. • Moderator: What do you mean – normal? • B: Well, its just something we have come to accept. Not as a good thing, but as something to be expected. • D: As something so common…

  16. Mental suffering in the Performance Society • Quo vadis?

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