[Linganth] Tomas Matza on his book, Shock Therapy

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
On the CaMP blog today, Natalja Czarnecki interviews Tomas Matza about his
book, Shock Therapy:Psychology, Precarity, and Well-Being in Postsocialist
Russia.
https://campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb:
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia witnessed a dramatic
increase in psychotherapeutic options, which promoted social connection
while advancing new forms of capitalist subjectivity amid often-wrenching
social and economic transformations. In *Shock Therapy* Tomas Matza
provides an ethnography of post-Soviet Saint Petersburg, following
psychotherapists, psychologists, and their clients as they navigate the
challenges of post-Soviet life. Juxtaposing personal growth and success
seminars for elites with crisis counseling and remedial interventions for
those on public assistance, Matza shows how profound inequalities are
emerging in contemporary Russia in increasingly intimate ways as matters of
selfhood. Extending anthropologies of neoliberalism and care in new
directions, Matza offers a profound meditation on the interplay between
ethics, therapy, and biopolitics, as well as a sensitive portrait of
everyday caring practices in the face of the confounding promise of
postsocialist democracy.
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