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In this book, Professor Ole Jacob Madsen analyses the implications of Scandinavia's current concern for the mental health problems of adolescents, said to be struggling in the face of increasing demands for achievement and success. It critically examines our understanding of this so-called “achievement generation”, questioning whether today’s youth are really worse off than previous generations and how we have come to believe that this is so.
The author’s wide-ranging investigation draws on a large body of research, as well as considering socio-political, historical and regional factors that might be affecting the resilience and mental health among young people. It also provides original psycholinguistic studies of popular media concepts associated with these issues including: “the achievement generation”, “pathological perfection” and “the good girl syndrome”.
Deconstructing Scandinavia’s “Achievement Generation” presents an engaging contribution to key debates around therapeutic culture and society in the 21st century. It will appeal to students and scholars of critical and social psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy; as well as to those working in education, social work and mental health.What’s new?. 8
How are we, really?. 9
The circle and the line. 11
Left and right 12
A diagnosis for us – a diagnosis for you. 13
The organization of this book. 14
Chapter 2 - The Pathologies of Modernity. 16
Nietzsche’s last human. 17
Marx’s alienation. 18
Durkheim’s anomie. 18
Weber’s iron cage. 19
Freud’s discontentment within culture. 20
Adorno and Horkheimer’s Enlightenment 22
Fromm’s contentment in culture. 22
Rieff’s therapeutic turn. 24
Erikson’s identity crisis. 25
Mitscherlich’s fatherlessness. 25..........................................
Conclusion: the tragic view of life. 26
Chapter 3 - The Pathologies of Late Modernity. 28
Ziehe’s society of choices. 29Beck’s individualization. 29
Bauman’s liquid modernity. 30
Rosa’s social acceleration. 30
We are not thriving in late capitalism.. 32
Dufour’s anthropological mutation. 33
The market as a new “God”. 34
Between the guilt and the shame. 36
Failure to thrive in the new millennium.. 37
Conclusion. 41
Chapter 4 - Young, Privileged and Sick. 43
Illness experiences from life in late modernity. 45
Norway: “I get so afraid of missing out on myself.”. 45The road to depression. 46
Self-realization’s exhausting downside. 49
Optimization of the self. 51
Sweden: “You should really make the most of what you’ve received.”. 53
Denmark: “You bloody well better perform well in this society, right?”. 54
Where are we now?. 55
Somewhere over the rainbow.. 57
Conclusion. 58
Chapter 5 - Youth Under Pressure. 60
Suicide in Norway. 61
Suicide among young people. 61
Suicide internationally. 62
Suicide and psychological disorders. 63
Psychological disorders and complaints. 63
Psychological complaints in young people. 65
Why the increase in the reporting of psychological complaints?. 67
Which group of young people is hardest hit?. 68
Use of medication. 69Self-harm.. 70
Externalising behaviours. 71
The new digital existence. 73
Generational differences. 75
Conclusion. 78
Chapter 6 - Social Representations. 79
The achievement society. 79
The achievement generation. 85
Good girl 90
The good girl – a media history. 91
The good girl syndrome. 93
Conclusion. 101
Chapter 7 - Self-fulfilling Prophecies. 103
The problem without a name. 105
When the meritocracy came to Norway. 108
Finally somebody who understands us. 110
Proceed with caution. 113
Students provide a causal explanation. 113
Identifying with the research. 114
Talking about it 115
Conclusion. 116
Chapter 8 - The Paradox of Health. 117
Cultural Oblivion. 118
Scientific myths. 119
British resistance. 120
How does infection occur?. 122
The illness epidemic in Sweden. 125
Reaping as we sow.. 126
Professional whistleblowing systems. 129
Double reflexivity. 131
Conclusion. 134
Chapter 9 - Conclusion. 136
Summing up the book. 137
The answer is served. 138
The unbearable distortion of the media society. 139
Media templates. 139Media favouritism.. 141
Skewed reporting. 141
The Reality 2.0. 143
The generation label 143
Wanted: “The stagnation generation”. 144
Left-wing media?. 145
What must be done?. 146
A good enough society. 146
Different medicine. 147
The disadvantaged among us. 147
We need to talk about it 148
Life sucks. 149
Existentialism, where did you go in the midst of all the chaos?. 150
To the root of the problem.. 151
Silence is golden. 152
Nothing new under the sun – the youth of the past 153
Don’t speak – the young people of today. 154
Generation Screwed – the young people of the future. 156
Conclusion: overloading “young people”. 158
References. 161
Ole Jacob Madsen is Professor of Cultural and Community Psychology at the University of Oslo, Norway. His previous works include: The Therapeutic Turn: How Psychology Altered Western Culture (2014), Optimizing the Self: Social Representations of Self-Help (2015) and The Psychologization of Society: On the Unfolding of the Therapeutic in Norway (2018) and The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures (2020).
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