This book brings together the work of the late Anders Petersen, presenting his exciting and innovative transdisciplinary paradigm that offers insights into anxiety, depression and grief, and the connection between these conditions and the failings of contemporary civilization that give rise to them. With attention to the ways in which neoliberal hegemony and its imperatives of ?performance?, ?evaluation?, ?self-realisation?, ?resilience? and ?flexibility? lead to self-criticism on the part of those who do not measure up to the prevailing criteria, resulting in ailments of mental health, it challenges the paradigmatic diagnosis of such conditions in terms of individual diseases or neurological malfunctions, to be treated by medication and training in order to return the individual to work and life ?as normal?. An examination of the wrong-headed approach to what Petersen analysed as contemporary social pathologies, Enduring Modernity: Depression, Anxiety and Grief in the Age of Voicelessness will appeal to scholars of sociology and social theory, seeking new understandings aimed at emancipation from social suffering.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgement

Anders Petersen ? his life and memory

The original publication of the chapters

Notes on Contributors

1. Introduction: The Work of Anders Petersen

Bert van den Bergh, Sabine Flick, Kieran Keohane, Domonkos Sik

Part 1: Depression, Anxiety and Happiness

2. Introduction to part 1

Carmen Kuhling

3. Authentic Self-Realization and Depression

Anders Petersen

4. Return of the Age of Anxiety: The Embedding of a Late Modern Social Pathology

Anders Petersen

5. ?Clap Along if You Feel Like a Room Without a Roof?: Understanding the Pursuit of Happiness as Ideology

Anders Petersen

6. Depression: Emotion and (or) Dis-Connection in Late Modern Society

Anders Petersen, Bert van den Bergh

Part 2: Liberalism and Disenfranchisement

7. Introduction to part 2

S?ren Christian Krogh

8. The Demand for Flexibility as a Process of Disenfranchisement

Anders Petersen, Rasmus Willig

9. Evaluations as a Process of Disenfranchisement

Anders Petersen, Rasmus Willig

Part 3: Grief and Diagnostic Culture

10. Introduction to part 3

Svend Brinkmann

11. Grief: The Painfulness of Permanent Human Absence

Anders Petersen, Michael Hviid Jacobsen

12. Grief in an Individualized Society: A Critical Corrective to the Advancement of Diagnostic Culture

Anders Petersen, Michael Hviid Jacobsen

13. Outro: Working with Anders Petersen - A Dialogue with Michael Hviid Jacobsen, S?ren Christian Krogh and Carmen Kuhling

14. Index

Social issues, social work

Psychotherapy, clinical psychology

Self-help

Further readings in medicine

Sociological theory

Social economics

Psychology theory

Social issues, social work (charity campaign)

Psychotherapy, clinical psychology (charity campaign)

Self-help (charity campaign)

Further readings in medicine (charity campaign)

Sociological theory (charity campaign)

Social economics (charity campaign)

Psychology theory (charity campaign)

Enduring Modernity