[Linganth] Summerson Carr on CaMP anthropology blog

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Today on the blog, Summerson Carr answers my questions about her new book,
Working the Difference.

https://campanthropology.org/

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb:
A history of motivational interviewing and what its rise reveals about how
cultural forms emerge and spread.

Motivational interviewing (MI) is a professional practice, a behavioral
therapy, and a self-professed conversation style that encourages clients to
talk themselves into change. Originally developed to treat alcoholics, MI
quickly spread into a variety of professional fields including corrections,
medicine, and sanitation. In *Working the Difference*, E. Summerson Carr
focuses on the training and dissemination of MI to explore how cultural
forms—and particularly forms of expertise—emerge and spread. The result is
a compelling analysis of the American preoccupations at MI’s core, from
democratic autonomy and freedom of speech to Protestant ethics and American
pragmatism.
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