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Sociological Therapy and Diagnostics

Socioanalysis, Sociopractise, Socioeducation, and Sociological Heuristics

This book began to take shape in 2019, and the actual work began in the fall of 2021 and spring of 2022 when I presented the initial ideas at the Sociology Days at Uppsala University in the Medical Sociology working group. At that time, I presented arguments for sociotherapy as a research program. This was followed up during the 2024 Sociology Days at the University of Gothenburg, once again in the Medical Sociology working group. During that conference, I also presented Aristotelian Balance Theory (ABT) as a proposal for a grand theory in the Sociological Theory working group. ABT was presented in the book The Mediocre Society and Aristotelian Balance Theory (Berglund, 2026), which in this book is used to construct a framework for sociological diagnoses and sociotherapy.

The book's chapters

Prologue: Background and Process

1Prologue: Background and Process2Summary of the contributions this study claims to

2. Introduction and Rationale for the Sociotherapy Research Program

32. Introduction and Rationale for the Sociotherapy Research Program4Arguments for a Renewed Research Program on Sociotherapy

3. Survey of Fields Linked to a Research Program in Sociotherapy

53. Survey of Fields Linked to a Research Program in Sociotherapy6Clinical Sociology7Psychosocial Studies8Social Work with a Sociological Foundation9Sociology of Health and Medical Sociology10Mad Studies and Critical Psychiatry11Social Psychiatry and Social Medicine12Social, Psychological Psychiatry13Special education14The Failure of Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Psychiatry? · Discussions within the field of psychology15Sociologists’ Analyses and Critiques of Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Psychiatry16Conclusions to be drawn from these fields: What is missing, and what can be utilized?

4 Socioanalysis and Sociological Diagnoses

174 Socioanalysis and Sociological Diagnoses18Epistemological Foundation for Socioanalysis19Sociological Diagnoses: Opportunities and Risks20The Various Components of Socioanalysis

5. Sociological Diagnoses

215. Sociological Diagnoses225.1 Sociological Diagnoses Using ABT as a Framework23Citizenship : Heroic Citizenship24Attention: Outward inward lookingness/caring curiosity25Focus: Specialized Systematics26Struggle: Disconsensus and Humanistic Machiavellianism27Relationality: Embedded Autonomy28Complexity: Simplexity29Risk: Safe risk-taking30Meaning: Rational Enchantment31Flourishing: Eudaimonic Hedonism32Play: Gameful Playfullness33Time: Historical Awareness34Possibility: Critical Optimism/Realistic Idealism35Adventure: Spontaneous Routine/ Adventurized36Action: Subjectification and the Critical Cyborg37Body: Cultured Naturalness38Wisdom: Reflexive Action39Emotions: Reflexive Emotionality40Identity: Genuine Pretending41Rhythm: Slow speediness425.2 Sociologization of psychiatric diagnoses43Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa from an ABT Perspective

6. Socioaskesis and Socio, Pharmaka

446. Socioaskesis and Socio, Pharmaka456.1 The Therapist: Fostering Sociological Consciousness, a “Socio-Self,” Through Socio-Technologies46The Therapist from an ABT Perspective476.2 Socioeducation, sociological consciousness, sociological heuristics, and the sociologization of ancient philosophy48Sociological Heuristics and Social Heuristics49Drawing on a philosophical legacy: sociologizing practical philosophy506.3 Change in a Therapeutic Context, The Possibility of a Subject Leap51Change through ABT, the possibility of rapid change, a theory of subject leaps526.4 Sociopractise with ABT as the Framework53Citizenship, Attention, and Focus54Action and Body55Wisdom and Complexity56Emotions57Play, adventure, risk58Opportunity, time and rhythm59Identity60Relationality61ABT Applied to Learning, Life, and Relationships62Questions for self, reflection across the various dimensions63Discussion

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