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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... Factiva search of 300 UK newspapers in 1980 did not find a single reference to the term self - esteem ( Figure 1 ) . It found three citations in 1986. By 1990 , this figure rose to 103. A decade later , in 2000 , there were a staggering ...
... Factiva . A Factiva search also indicates a similar pattern of increase in the usage of words like stress , syndrome or counselling ( Figures 3-5 ) . The expanding usage of the idiom of therapeutics is not simply of linguistic interest ...
... Factiva . understood as an invisible disease that undermines people's ability to control their lives . The belief that individuals and society suffer from an emotional deficit informs discussions of the subject of emotional intelligence ...
... Factiva . Terrence Real , author of I Don t Want To Talk About It : Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression , contends that since the beginning of the twentieth century each generation has doubled its susceptibility to ...
... Factiva . 1998 1999- There is little doubt that there has been a massive increase in the rate of depression . Amongst those born around the First World War , the lifetime prevalence of depression was about 1 per cent . This rate rose to ...
Índice
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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