Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain AgePsychology Press, 2004 - 245 páginas Therapy Culture explores the powerful influence of therapeutic imperative in Anglo-American societies. In recent decades virtually every sphere of life has become subject to a new emotional culture. Professor Furedi suggests that the recent cultural turn toward the realm of the emotions coincides with a radical redefinition of personhood. Increasingly vulnerability is presented as the defining feature of people's psychology. Terms like people 'at risk', 'scarred for life' or 'emotional damage' evoke a unique sense of powerlessness. Furedi questions the widely accepted thesis that the therapeutic turn represents an enlightened shift towards emotions. He claims that therapeutic culture is primarily about imposing a new conformity through the management of people's emotions. Through framing the problem of everyday life through the prism of emotions, therapeutic culture incites people to feel powerless and ill. Drawing on developments in popular culture, political and social life, Furedi provides a path-breaking analysis of the therapeutic turn. |
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... American societies . In recent decades virtually every sphere of life has become subject to a new emotional culture . Professor Furedi suggests that the recent cultural turn towards the realm of the emotions coincides with a radical ...
... American Girl Scouts produced a ' stressless badge ' , embroidered with a swinging hammock . Troop 459 in Sunnyvale , California has organised a stress clinic for third - grade Brownies . Meanwhile , pupils at St Silas Primary School in ...
... America's cities ' . The atmosphere during the aftermath of 11 September was often represented as a ' time of national ... American law journals during the 1950s , 1960s and 1970s . Yet by 1985 , the word ' syndrome ' appeared in 86 ...
... American psychologist Martin Seligman believes that this epidemic of depression is due to the difficulty that people have in dealing with disappointment and failure . ' By blunting warranted sadness , warranted anxiety , it created ...
... American public.26 It is claimed that during any given week , 15 million Americans will attend one of about 500,000 support group meetings.27 The 1999 Surgeon General's Report on Mental Health stated that 50 million Americans develop ...
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The culture of emotionalism | 24 |
The politics of emotion | 44 |
Targeting privacy and informal relations | 66 |
How did we get here? | 84 |
The diminished self | 106 |
The self at risk | 127 |
Fragile identity hooked on selfesteem | 143 |
Conferring recognition the quest for identity and the state | 162 |
Therapeutic claimsmaking and the demand for a diagnosis | 175 |
does it matter? | 195 |
Notes | 205 |
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Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age Frank Furedi Vista previa restringida - 2004 |
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