Okay, while it is true that more people go to school than to psychotherapy, you probably know more about your own behavior than do your teachers. Just when did you start working on that paper, anyway? So while Robins & Webster make a good argument for education as a method of social control, psychotherapy is an even better example. Cognitive therapy, both with a live therapist and through self-help books, teaches its clients how to use self-surveillance to become more "rational" and, therefore, happier. Classical psychoanalysts sit behind and out of sight of their clients, then debate whether or not it is proper therapeutic procedure to apologize to your patient if you fall asleep during the session--put that in your Foucaultian panopticon and smoke it.
I wanted to post a cognitive therapy "mood log" here so that everyone could download it and begin working on their own self-surveillance immediately. As you will note from my previous posts, however, my best protection against anyone ever figuring anything out about me via surveillance of this blog is my technical incompetence, which prevents me from linking half the stuff I want to put up.
I will bring everyone their own cognitive therapy mood log to class tomorrow, so that self-surveillance and rationality may reign supreme during this exciting time of the semester.
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Oh man. Outstanding blogging moment: the phrase "put that in your Foucaultian panopticon and smoke it." That definitely deserves some Pez.
And I'm not sure what's worse: the surveillance possibilities of an online mood log or the fact that I'm looking forward to getting my own tomorrow.
Truly, one million cool points for Perry.
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