Not exercising as much as you should? Counting your calories in your sleep? Feeling ashamed for not being happier? You may be a victim of the wellness syndrome.
In this ground-breaking new book, Carl Cederstrom and Andre Spicer argue that the ever-present pressure to maximize our wellness has started to work against us, making us feel worse and provoking us to withdraw into ourselves. The Wellness Syndrome follows health freaks who go to extremes to find the perfect diet, corporate athletes who start the day with a dance party, and the self-trackers who monitor everything, including their own toilet habits. This is a world where feeling good has become indistinguishable from being good. Visions of social change have been reduced to dreams of individual transformation, political debate has been replaced by insipid moralising, and scientific evidence has been traded for new-age delusions. A lively and humorous diagnosis of the cult of wellness, this book is an indispensable guide for everyone suspicious of our relentless quest to be happier and healthier
I loved the concept of this book, a critique of the societal command to "be well" (or at least *try* to be well) that people in the West live under now. Cederstrom's argument is that the wellness command actually imposes guilt and stress on us, makes us narcissistic and takes our attention away from problems that may be more important to solve. In the course of the book he also points out that the motivation behind encouraging people to be well or pursue wellness is not a concern with the actual well being of the people being "encouraged" (or coerced, as the case may be), but the realization that healthy people are more productive, less expensive employees.
All of this resonates with me and I started reading with glee. I was disappointed by sloppiness in places, though. Although the book has a notes section, some assertions that should have had sources cited did not. Unfortunately this made a couple of the middle chapters seem more like polemic than argument.
Overall, though, the critique is good. The last two chapters on electronically assisted control and on people who try to wriggle loose from the wellness command are especially good. I'm glad this book was written!
I agree wholeheartedly with everything the authors had to say about the pernicious influences of the wellness and self-help industries, but upon completion immediately began reading a self-help book. Sigh.
I've found it easy to adopt the rhetoric of "wellness" as a personal responsibility: make good choices, eat well, exercise, chase after the perfect night's sleep, manage stress because I can't manage how others treat me. I've participated in those wellness initiatives at work (for straightforward and for ulterior motives, for physical and financial and psychological reasons). I've tracked my performance on at least 4 versions of a heart-rate monitor. I keep a training log. I've periodically kept an Excel food journal of my own design that tracks weight, calories, macronutrients, fiber, calcium, blah blah blah. I'm trying to be more disciplined about a mindfulness practice to reduce stress. I often roll my eyes at smokers and vapers and people who buy into every fitness fad as a quick fix because, duh, they're just making bad choices that anyone through sheer willpower can simply choose NOT to make. I guess I might characterize myself as having bought into the idea that "wellness" is unassailably valuable.
Until this book.
Cederstrom and Spicer invoke biomorality as the moral demand to be happy and healthy, and cite this as the underlying principle of the wellness syndrome: a passive nihilism that generates focus on the self instead of focus on the world.
They use a broad umbrella to cover several trends, including coaching (think life-coaching and executive coaching), mindfulness, smoking, happiness/positive psychology, the self-quantifier trend, and gamification. Both are business school professors, so it makes sense for them to tap into concepts that are not only pop-psych but are also trending in workplaces. In each of these trends, they see a movement to shift responsibility inward to the individual and away from broader social responsibility.
Not all of the connections back to "wellness" are particularly tight, but I found the value of Wellness in the analyses of each individual trend as creating burdens for the individual while indemnifying larger power structures. Their analysis of interventionist "reality" cooking shows (Jamie Oliver's series) could easily apply to most reality shows--the formula and script are designed to appeal to a middle-class viewership who can feel better about themselves ("I don't eat crap like that: look at how superior I am") while also taking voyeuristic glee in how awful the chavs eat. Incidentally, Spicer is British and Cederstrom is Swedish, so "chav" was a new term for me. Think British "welfare queen" or "trailer trash." Cederstrom and Spicer also note that conceptualizing the chavs and chavettes and welfare queens as a particular kind of person serves an important differentiating purpose: it establishes the lower class in opposition to the middle class on the basis of "wellness" and "healthy choices" and has the benefit of "giv[ing the viewer] a smug righteousness, making you think you're on the right side of the moral law" (60). The formula holds true for just about every "reality" show on TLC (about hoarders, about the morbidly obese, fill-in-the-blank challenge of want in a land of plenty): discover a problem; attempt to intervene; face resistance; encounter a crisis; try again with a renewed mix of tough love and overwrought sentimentality; SUCCESS! "Wellness" has helped me put my finger on why I was so entertained by those shows initially and then felt increasingly uncomfortable with each new episode I sat through. It just feels mean to hold someone so responsible for a variety of circumstances, only a few of which are ultimately in the person's control.
Their section on happiness is also instructive--my personal reading has started with tomes about happiness and how to increase happiness (and how futile that undertaking can be), and has moved into self-help and management positivity (both of which I love to hate, but I suspect will get old soon). They trace happiness through Norman Vincent Peale (the power of positive thinking) to Martin Seligman (positive psychology) and parse the problems with investigations of happiness. Much is backed by "bad science," relies on unclear definitions, and often tips over into ideology repackaged as academic studies and employed to support exploitation and hierarchies as a "common good." When happiness is defined as something within your control--how you interpret, how you behave, in short, how you CHOOSE--it eliminates consideration of material conditions that are outside of your control.
The self-quantifier and gamification trends also loom large in a culture of wearables and notifications and wellness initiatives in workplaces that take the form of reported data and "incentives" for "good" behavior (full disclosure: I've participated in those in my workplace. First, to get out from behind my desk and second, because as in many workplaces, the games are tied to financial incentives/disincentives). In an age of self-quantification that compels people to measure their steps, heart rates, sleep, productivity, and efficiency, what often gets lost is what we will do with all that time freed up by increased efficiency. What's more, such a focus on improvement through technology, paves the way for the ultimate technological consequence: those who can't upgrade themselves are rendered obsolete.
The gamification trend leads to more social control and ultimately pits resistance to authority against the conformity of measuring and sharing everything: all those games feed data to (I'm going to say it) a version of Big Brother, and creates the illusion of individual expression.
Ultimately, Wellness teases out the unanswerable question of where individual responsibility ends and where social responsibility starts. Shifting all aspects of wellness and happiness to the individual forces more people into a narcissistic orientation that emphasizes personal behavioral interventions and that positions "inequality, discrimination and authoritarianism [as] too grade to tackle head-on" (134). The conclusion: "To escape the clutches of wellness, we might recognize that, as humans, we are defined not exclusively by our potentials, but also by our impotence. And this is nothing to be ashamed of. Accepting our impotence allows us to see that we will always come up short in one way or another" (134).
Cederstrom and Spicer have presented a more nuanced interpretation of the harm that it might do to accept, unquestioningly, the notion that "wellness" is a given, an apolitical concept that is without an alternative viewpoint.
3,5 stars, mainly for content. It was not badly written but the main point for me was the idea of the wellness syndrome and its effects on society.
I was really inspired by some of the chapters. I enjoyed reading critique on mindfulness, self-monitoring, and firm-based wellness programs. I would criticize the authors' experience and knowledge on fat acceptance, or rather the lack of knowledge on body positivity. The movement, I feel, has long since moved on from fat acceptance to body positivity, and it is therefore unwise to write about the former without including the latter. This, in turn, made me question the authors' knowledge on barebacking culture, though I can't claim to have enough knowledge on that myself to judge their knowledge level.
But these last two things were only used as examples of resistance of the wellness syndrome in the last chapter before the conclusion. The main chapters themselves were wonderful. The ones criticizing the hype around wellness, search for happiness in all cost, or using all your life searching for ways to be more productive. And explaining how this all tied in with neoliberal capitalism and its values and valuelessness. How politics can be made empty so that everything is personal and nothing is political, so that your only way of making any changes is to make changes to your own body.
And still we have to fight for bodily autonomy, especially for women, trans people, disabled people and sex workers. *While* we fight capitalism and liberalism. While we fight to keep things political, to keep the political decisions and their consequences reported, to keep people informed, and to keep them/us motivated enough to keep on fighting. To keep them/us believing in the power we have to change things.
Well, this has long since ceased to be a book review. I think someone can read this book from a less political point of view, too. I can't.
I knew I was in trouble when the authors quoted 沤i啪ek five pages in. But that was what made the book so interesting too: that it referenced a lot of other writing. The arguments presented were... argumentative, and as such I doubt that they are palatable in their entirety to anyone, but they are great for spurring reflection on organizational and individual (self)involvement in our wellness/fitness.
A very insightful book into our modern obsession with health, happiness and wellness. This obsession to some extent has become a syndrome, and it is working against us, disabling us from pursuing a genuinely meaningful life. It was a really refreshing read, and made me realise my unhealthy habits are largely independent from my moral life, and that really happiness is a little overrated. Provocative and necessary in our culture, I really recommend this book.
This book is a much-needed expos茅 of the combination of New Age speculation and trashy pop psychology that is current today in much popular writing and some management and health literature. The authors subject the "wellness" craze to scrupulous thought and reveal (as anyone with a shred of reason should already have suspected) that the emperor has no clothes.
The title of this book really captured my attention but the contents did not match up. There are some very true and thought provoking sections but overall I found it just telling us what it wrong with the world with no solutions. I didn't agree with some of what was said either, and I like having my beliefs tested, but this book failed to make me see a new light.
Very refreshing popular science book on our far-fetching wellness culture- from yoga to gratitude journals to work gym plans and fatshaming. Spot-on critical thinking, can only recommend. An important read!
While the concept behind the book is solid I found it too full of personal opinions and generalisations not backed up by fact, and a narrow perception of society and those that make it up, especially those of us who aren't (and/or don't want to be) corporate high-fliers.
This is a shame as there are some good points made around the toxicity of life coaching, and the blending of work and personal health, for which corporations don't really care about your physical or mental state only reducing the time you spend away from the office and maximising your efficiency.
Much of the value of this book can be summed up very quickly however and you'll find yourself skimming through.
Clearing Out the To-Read Pile #1 Le ton para卯t un peu trop militant par moments, mais il y a du bon. 脟a faisait des ann茅es que la VO 茅tait dans ma p.脿.l. et je ne l'ai finalement trouv茅 qu'en VF. La traduction de "wellness" par "bien-锚tre" n'est pas 100% satisfaisante 脿 mes yeux, bien que je n'aie rien de mieux 脿 sugg茅rer. Ayant moi-m锚me adopt茅 pas mal des comportements d茅crits (parfois m锚me 脿 l'initiative / 脿 cause de r茅compenses propos茅es par mes employeurs et assureurs), je dois dire que je l'ai lu diff茅remment post-Covid et apr猫s mon retour d'expatriation que je ne l'aurais abord茅 en 2015 ou 2016.
Je suis contente d'avoir lu ce livre, que j'avais sur ma wishlist depuis sa sortie il y a presque deux ans. Cela dit je n'ai pas l'impression d'avoir appris grand chose, dans le sens o霉 je suis grosso modo d'accord avec les auteurs, pour dire qu'on vit dans une soci茅t茅 de tyrannie du bonheur au profit du capitalisme. Je les ai trouv茅s un peu trop dans le jugement, d'ailleurs, face aux personnes qui rentrent dans le moule, se forcent 脿 r茅pondre 脿 ces attentes, sans qu'ils donnent beaucoup de solutions -- ce n'est pas vraiment leur travail mais du coup le jugement + la relative absence d'alternative, c'est un peu too much. D'autant plus que les seules alternatives qu'ils proposent r茅ellement sont 茅difiantes. Le mouvement d'acceptation des gros, 莽a, 茅videmment que je suis pour (m锚me si eux y trouvent encore quelque chose 脿 redire, parce que la mani猫re dont c'est fait serait trop proche du syst猫me de tyrannie du bien-锚tre, et je ne suis pas s没re que les gros qui sont dans ce mouvement aient cette "haine profonde de soi" dont parlent les auteurs...), mais le barebacking 莽a, j'avoue que je n'ai pas r茅ussi 脿 comprendre d'o霉 莽a sortait. Enfin bref, 莽a se lit vite, ce n'est pas compliqu茅 脿 lire, mais je pense que 莽a apporterait plus de connaissances et de mati猫re 脿 r茅flexion 脿 quelqu'un qui ne se serait pas d茅j脿 pas mal renseign茅 sur ce sujet.
Es un gran libro, que critica toda esa cultura centrada en la b煤squeda del bienestar y la perfecci贸n humana. En la introducci贸n ya los autores nos hablan sobre contratos de bienestar que hay en las universidades, en los que se busca crear un estudiante de pensamiento recto y saneado. Por lo que ahora hay una exigencia moral en torno al bienestar, esta 煤ltima palabra ahora est谩 en muchos aspectos de nuestra vida desde la nutrici贸n hasta el ejercicio por lo que el bienestar se convierte en una ideolog铆a en la que convierte el cuerpo en una mercanc铆a, el bienestar a su vez, se vuelven una obligaci贸n moral, en la que todos deben ser felices o ser谩n rechazados, en 煤ltimas, todo lo que hacemos en nuestra vida tendr谩 como objetivo nuestro bienestar seg煤n esta nueva ideolog铆a.
El primer cap铆tulo es sobre el mundo del coaching, en el que cualquier persona puede hacerlo as铆 no tenga una titulaci贸n,听 la idea de esto, es que las personas que acceden a estos maestros puedan desbloquear un supuesto poder oculto interior, es esa idea de desbloquear t煤 yo interior, una idea nociva en la que siempre debemos estar mejor y alcanzar m谩s objetivos, una mirada fija hacia adentro, siempre est谩 la esperanza de que hay una mejor versi贸n de nosotros mismos o si hay una b煤squeda por la perfecci贸n, pero en esa b煤squeda dejamos de lado, amigos y familiares que son importantes para nuestra salud mental. El coaching hace que nos culpemos a nosotros mismos de todo, nos hace pensar que todo se puede lograr por medio de la fuerza de voluntad, no se hacen sentir mal pensando que podemos hacerlo mucho mejor.
Por otra parte, existe el ideal del humano perfecto,听 sin que se tenga en cuenta el contexto, por ejemplo en el 谩mbito laboral nos obligan a sonre铆r pese a las malas condiciones laborales que tengamos,听 en el 谩mbito laboral tambi茅n se aplica la atenci贸n plena, pero como lo demuestran los autores a煤n falta mucha investigaci贸n en torno a sus beneficios, pero la atenci贸n plena no es la soluci贸n para todo, el capitalismo ha utilizado la atenci贸n plena, ya que hace cargar al individuo de la responsabilidad y no al contexto.
El segundo cap铆tulo gira en torno hacia la salud f铆sica donde se busca tener mucha m谩s energ铆a para hacer m谩s productivos, incluso ahora es mal visto el dormir porque mientras lo hacemos no somos productivos, en las grandes empresas ahora se busca mejorar la imagen corporal muchos se han incorporado en el mundo laboral el hacer ejercicio, puesto que genera una imagen del trabajador atl茅tico y productivo, por ello ahora se desdibuja el plano laboral y f铆sico. En el 谩mbito de las dietas, tenemos que Estas son muy estrictas, al punto de que las personas se regulan mucho y se vigilan tambi茅n, las dietas lo que nos hacen es sentirnos culpables, puesto que las personas con sobrepeso son mal vistas ante la sociedad, el problema es que si bien una mejor alimentaci贸n nos puede ayudar no soluciona muchos problemas sociales o educativos, por ejemplo.
El tercer cap铆tulo es sobre la doctrina de la felicidad,听 el pensamiento positivo combinados y elementos la responsabilidad individual y el pensamiento m谩gico de que se puede hacer cualquier cosa, se piensa que la felicidad lo es todo, pero muchas veces las personas no cuentan con un buen hogar o con un buen empleo, importantes para alcanzar la supuesta felicidad, hay que tener muy presente las condiciones materiales para lograr la felicidad cosa que muchos de los gur煤s de la psicolog铆a positiva no tienen en cuenta, puesto que se centran en que la felicidad viene desde el interior, los autores sostienen que no hay que preguntarnos si somos felices, puesto que la felicidad es esquiva y fr谩gil llega cuando menos no lo esperaba, y es que es dif铆cil ser feliz en un estado sin bienestar, se desv铆a la atenci贸n a cuestiones sociopol铆ticas al centrarnos tanto en c贸mo medir la felicidad, no todo es responsabilidad de nosotros para lograr la felicidad, muchas personas viven en una burbuja de privilegios olvidando que no todas las personas pueden lograr la felicidad, puesto que carecen de los medios materiales, en 煤ltimas cuanto m谩s buscamos nuestra felicidad y bienestar, m谩s sufrimos.
El cuarto cap铆tulo empieza con los recortes en el subsidio a las personas desempleadas,听 se les dice a estos 煤ltimos que deben siempre ser optimistas y se les achaca la culpa de no encontrar empleo,听 se les dice a estos desempleados que se miren hacia adentro m谩s no tienen en cuenta los hombres que es el mercado laboral, la culpa听 no es del sistema econ贸mico, sino el que busca empleo, unas ideas muy nocivas, puesto que incluso a las personas desempleadas con depresi贸n se les pide que finjan felicidad. A las personas en desempleo tambi茅n se les dice que deben mejorar en cualquier aspecto de su vida no importa el que sea, las empresas ahora hacen seguimiento de todos nuestros datos como si fu茅ramos simples mercanc铆as con el objetivo de mejorar nuestra productividad, es as铆 que parece que lo humano estuviera en constante mejora. Pero el autor termina citando a Bauman, donde no todos tenemos los mismos medios para elegir, ya que no todas las personas tienen las mismas oportunidades.
Algo curioso del bienestar es que la enfermedad se muestra como una v铆a de escape para las demandas de trabajo, mientras estamos enfermos no hacemos nada algo importante para desconectarnos y pensar, es decir que se est谩 intentando reivindicar la idea de no hacer nada algo que es mal visto por la sociedad capitalista donde a todo momento debemos ser productivos e inclusive esa obsesi贸n por el bienestar ha generado movimientos que rechazan la cultura del bienestar. A manera de conclusi贸n la alegr铆a debe estar acompa帽ada de otras personas,听 est谩 llega de manera inesperada,听 nuevamente los autores nos recuerdan que el siempre intentar buscar el bienestar nos hace sentir m谩s frustrados no debemos obsesionarnos con la b煤squeda de la perfecci贸n en todos nuestros aspectos, la felicidad nunca debe ser nuestro destino, y aunque se nos ha vendido de que nunca debemos mostrarnos d茅biles e impotentes, no tiene nada de malo avergonzarse por aquellos defectos de nosotros, puesto que nosotros oscilamos en una dualidad que se resume entre felicidad y tristeza.
This books explains why the self-help, fit, happiness craze is a problem. We are creating a narcissistic autistic hedonistic society. We've made fitness, happiness, and success an ideology. Those who are not are flawed. That's exemplified first with smoking - its not that smoking is bad but smokers are bad. So are fat people, unemployed people and poor people - that is a major problem with the biomorality of the self help craze. Self help craze started in the 20s and 30s with Norman Vincent Peal, Dale Carnegie, and Napoleon Hill. it continues on with wellness, mindfulness, and the Secret. The books debunks the fake science behind all these gurus. I read alot of these books. They are empty and fake. No I know that it wasn't me, it was them. I feel happy or I should say content.
Absolutely fantastic critical sociological analysis of positive psychology and related ideologies of contemporary society. The book is filled with excellent examples that serves to illustrate the main argument of the book, i.e. that we are forced to be happy and positive even in the face of adverse living conditions thereby individualising problems that are in fact created at the societal level. The book is witty and funny as well. While the book provides an excellent analysis of contemporary society - its conclusion and 'solutions' to this syndrome is underdeveloped and to some extent apologetic of the idea of the human condition. I much prefer Evans and Reids (Resilient Life) more utopian take on that.
Her 艧ey politik ve s谋n谋fsald谋r!!! 鈥淪a臒l谋kl谋 ya艧m dayatmas谋n谋n pen莽esindeki insanlar sadece daha sa臒l谋kl谋 daha mutlu ve daha 眉retken de臒iller. Ayn谋 zamanda narsisistik, kayg谋l谋 ve su莽luluk duygusu i莽indeler. Sa臒l谋kl谋 ya艧am sendromunun kurban谋 durumundalar. Biyo-ahlak ki艧isel patolojilere yol a莽makla kalm谋yor, ba艧kalar谋yla ili艧kileri de etkiliyor.鈥� 鈥淏ug眉nlerde iyi bir insan olmak; bedenin g眉nahkar arzular谋na gem vurmak, nefsi k枚reltmek, vicdan谋n sesine kulak vermek ve s眉rekli dua edip bu fani d眉nyay谋 terk etmeye haz谋rlanmak anlam谋na gelmiyor. Sa臒l谋kl谋 ve mutlu ya艧amak anlam谋na geliyor. Keyif almadan tek bir g眉n ge莽irenin vay haline!鈥� Herve Juvin 鈥擳he Coming of the Body 鈥淕眉n眉m眉zde sa臒l谋kl谋 ya艧m, bize b谋k谋p usanmadan s眉rekli hat谋rlat谋lan ahlaki bir talep halini ald谋鈥� 鈥淪a臒l谋kl谋 ya艧am谋n ideolojik niteli臒i, bedenlerini ihmal edenlere y枚nelik yayg谋n tutum g枚z 枚n眉ne al谋nd谋臒谋nda 枚zellikle belirgindir. Bu ki艧iler tembel, g眉莽s眉z veya iradesiz olmakla s谋莽lan谋r鈥� 鈥淏u mant谋臒a g枚re, 艧i艧man, gev艧ek ve bak谋ms谋z ki艧ilerin sa臒l谋ks谋z olu艧u rahats谋zl谋ktan ya da hastal谋ktan de臒il, ba艧kalar谋n谋n sa臒l谋k emaresi sayd谋臒谋 g枚steri艧li s眉sleri tak谋p tak谋艧t谋rmaya, feti艧le艧tirmeye ya da arzulamaya yana艧mamalar谋mdan kaynaklan谋r.鈥� 鈥淪a臒l谋kl谋 ya艧am, zihnin ve bedenin ekonomik birer kaynak olarak g枚r眉ld眉臒眉 siyasi bir paradigma 眉retiyor. 鈥� 鈥淥lumsuzluk, eksiklik, tatminsizlik, mutsuzluk gittik莽e daha fazla ahlaki kusurlar olarak, daha da beteri, tam da varl谋臒谋m谋z veya 莽谋plak hayat d眉zeyindeki bir bozulma olarak g枚r眉lmektedir. Kendini iyi hisseden(ve mutlu olan) ki艧i, iyi bir ki艧idir; kendini k枚t眉 hisseden ki艧i de k枚t眉 bir ki艧idir.鈥�
An interesting critique on the tyranny of positive thinking which seems to have pervaded every aspect of our lives. Labelling the state that we wish to reach as 'wellness' the book suggests that wellness has become a moral demand. A person who feels good and happy is a good person whereas a person who feels bad is a bad person. This aspect of the discussion is informed by Alenka Zupancic's term biomorality. "Negativity, lack, dissatisfaction, unhappiness, are perceived more and more as moral faults"
The book is not concerned with wellness per se (although at times it seems that it is) but with how wellness has become "an ideology which is part of a larger transformation in contemporary culture where individual responsibility and self expression are morphed with the mind-set of a free market economy."
I liked this book because it considers a range of contexts which to support their argument (although in places a little disjointed) which in turn led me to some interesting insights especially towards the end when discussing illness.
However, I do think it was a tad too black and white and was too dismissive of the possible benefits of a mind set which engages fully with individual choice and responsibility. No, that doesn't mean that I think there aren't huge structural inequalities that impede people's quality of life, it just means that we do have some choice in some matters.
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