Therapeutic Solutions, Disciplinary Ethics and Medical Truth on Self-Help TV
This article will consider the use of therapy television – specifically the self-help television program The Dr. Phil Show – as a locus of government. Specifically, I will examine the ways in which ethics are addressed as biopolitical problems of the self through the often disciplinary instruction o...
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Linköping University Electronic Press
2014-10-01
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| author | Maryam El-Shall |
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| description | This article will consider the use of therapy television – specifically the self-help television program The Dr. Phil Show – as a locus of government. Specifically, I will examine the ways in which ethics are addressed as biopolitical problems of the self through the often disciplinary instruction of the therapist. In this respect The Dr. Phil Show is representative of a shift in the talk show genre away from the tabloid model to a pedagogical model. Self-help talk shows are increasingly concerned with the cultivation of the soul, the production of truth and the discipline of the body. I demonstrate this by analyzing a series of Dr. Phil Show episodes centered on the confession and obesity, respectively. I emphasize the connection between TV expertise – here embodied in the discourse of the expert/therapist Dr. Phil McGraw – and neo-liberal goals requiring subjects to both care, and take responsibility, for themselves. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3ba73b988b6d4ba8b3c20a50d0a14e7c2022-12-22T04:11:38ZengLinköping University Electronic PressCulture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research2000-15252014-10-0164Therapeutic Solutions, Disciplinary Ethics and Medical Truth on Self-Help TVMaryam El-Shall0Jamestown Community College, Jamestown, New York, USAThis article will consider the use of therapy television – specifically the self-help television program The Dr. Phil Show – as a locus of government. Specifically, I will examine the ways in which ethics are addressed as biopolitical problems of the self through the often disciplinary instruction of the therapist. In this respect The Dr. Phil Show is representative of a shift in the talk show genre away from the tabloid model to a pedagogical model. Self-help talk shows are increasingly concerned with the cultivation of the soul, the production of truth and the discipline of the body. I demonstrate this by analyzing a series of Dr. Phil Show episodes centered on the confession and obesity, respectively. I emphasize the connection between TV expertise – here embodied in the discourse of the expert/therapist Dr. Phil McGraw – and neo-liberal goals requiring subjects to both care, and take responsibility, for themselves.https://journal.ep.liu.se/test3212/index.php/CU/article/view/2115BiopowerbiopoliticsDr. Phildisciplinetruthself |
| spellingShingle | Maryam El-Shall Therapeutic Solutions, Disciplinary Ethics and Medical Truth on Self-Help TV Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research Biopower biopolitics Dr. Phil discipline truth self |
| title | Therapeutic Solutions, Disciplinary Ethics and Medical Truth on Self-Help TV |
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| title_short | Therapeutic Solutions, Disciplinary Ethics and Medical Truth on Self-Help TV |
| title_sort | therapeutic solutions disciplinary ethics and medical truth on self help tv |
| topic | Biopower biopolitics Dr. Phil discipline truth self |
| url | https://journal.ep.liu.se/test3212/index.php/CU/article/view/2115 |
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