@article{ref1,
title="Confessions of a mind-wandering MBSR student: remembering social amnesia",
journal="Self and society",
year="2015",
author="Purser, Ronald E.",
volume="43",
number="1",
pages="6-14",
abstract="Based upon a first-person experience of a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program, this article provides a critical reflection on this clinical intervention within the context of late capitalist society. It draws inspiration from Russell Jacoby's critique of contemporary psychology, what he referred to as 'social amnesia', a form of collective forgetting, manifesting as a tendency to repress, forget, and exclude the larger social, historical, and political context of therapeutic interventions. With its fetishization of the present moment, MBSR is predicated on a politics of subjectivity that assumes stress is localized to the failure of the individual to regulate their emotions.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0306-0497",
doi="10.1080/03060497.2015.1018668",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03060497.2015.1018668"
}