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Worked Up Selves

Personal Development Workers, Self-Work and Therapeutic Cultures

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  • © 2010

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Authors:
  1. Elaine Swan

    1. Lancaster University Management School, UK

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Changing Selves

    • Elaine Swan
    Pages 1-31

  3. History of Working the Self

    • Elaine Swan
    Pages 32-49

  4. Therapeutic Cultures: Practices of Social Control or Self-Creation?

    • Elaine Swan
    Pages 50-69

  5. Cultural Representations of Therapeutic Cultures

    • Elaine Swan
    Pages 70-99

  6. Expert Relations

    • Elaine Swan
    Pages 100-139

  7. Transformations of the Self

    • Elaine Swan
    Pages 140-172

  8. Getting in Touch with Their Feelings?

    • Elaine Swan
    Pages 173-205

  9. Worked Up Selves

    • Elaine Swan
    Pages 206-224

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 225-258
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About this book

Drawing upon current literature on the history and politics of therapeutic cultures and upon original, qualitative research this book was produced in response to rapidly growing interest in the rise of 'new' HRD practices such as coaching, 'soft skills' training and personal development training.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Lancaster University Management School, UK

    Elaine Swan

About the author

ELAINE SWAN is senior teaching fellow at Lancaster University Management School, UK. Her research interests include diversity practices, corporate pedagogy culture and racialisation and gendering in organizations. She has published on the subjects of therapeutic cultures, diversity and gender and race in organizations. She has recently published a co-authored book with Caroline Gatrell entitled Gender and Diversity in Management: A Concise Introduction (Sage).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Worked Up Selves

  • Book Subtitle: Personal Development Workers, Self-Work and Therapeutic Cultures

  • Authors: Elaine Swan

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230246768

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-20136-1Published: 27 November 2009

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-29948-5Published: 02 February 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-24676-8Published: 27 November 2009

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 258

  • Topics: Human Resource Management, Behavioral/Experimental Economics, Management

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