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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.

Prologue: Background and Process

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

Introduction and Rationale for the Sociotherapy Research Program

3Introduction and Rationale for the Sociotherapy Research Program4Arguments for a Renewed Research Program on Sociotherapy

Survey of Fields Linked to a Research Program in Sociotherapy

5Survey 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?

Socioanalysis and Sociological Diagnoses

17Socioanalysis and Sociological Diagnoses18Epistemological Foundation for Socioanalysis19Sociological Diagnoses: Opportunities and Risks20The Various Components of Socioanalysis

Sociological Diagnoses

21Sociological Diagnoses22Sociological 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 speediness42Sociologization of psychiatric diagnoses

Socioaskesis and Socio, Pharmaka

43Socioaskesis and Socio, Pharmaka44The Therapist: Fostering Sociological Consciousness, a “Socio-Self,” Through Socio-Technologies45The Therapist from an ABT Perspective46Socioeducation, sociological consciousness, sociological heuristics, and the sociologization of ancient philosophy47Sociological Heuristics and Social Heuristics48Drawing on a philosophical legacy: sociologizing practical philosophy49Change in a Therapeutic Context, The Possibility of a Subject Leap50Change through ABT, the possibility of rapid change, a theory of subject leaps51Sociopractise with ABT as the Framework52Citizenship, Attention, and Focus53Action and Body54Wisdom and Complexity55Emotions56Play, adventure, risk57Opportunity, time and rhythm58Identity59Relationality60ABT Applied to Learning, Life, and Relationships61Questions for self, reflection across the various dimensions62Discussion

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