Deconstructing Scandinavia's "Achievement Generation" : A Youth Mental Health Crisis? - Ole Jacob Madsen

Deconstructing Scandinavia's "Achievement Generation"

A Youth Mental Health Crisis?

By: Ole Jacob Madsen, Diane Oatley (Translator)

Paperback | 14 April 2022

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Chapter 1 - Introduction

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. 29



Beck'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.". 45



The 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. 69



Self-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. 139



Media 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, wh...

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