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"Get Therapy and Work on It": Managing Dissent in an Intentional Community

Based on two years of fieldwork in an intentional community that was officially both egalitarian and therapeutic, we examine how community founders used a discourse of liberation psychotherapy to maintain power over newcomers. When newcomers expressed their desire for more financial accountability o...

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Published in:	Symbolic interaction 2007-04, Vol.30 (2), p.175-198
Main Authors:	Holden, Daphne, Schrock, Doug
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Subjects:	Accountability Anger Communities Community Community Power Community relations Discourse Discursive Practices Dissent Egalitarianism Emotional expression Emotions Field work Intentional communities Interactionism Medical treatment Newcomers Psychological Factors Psychology Psychotherapy Social interaction Social Movements Symbolic interaction Symbolic Interactionism Utopias
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