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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... post- traumatic stress disorder ( PTSD ) . The very conduct of war is regularly portrayed through the language of mental illness . A recent book on war by Chris Hedges , a foreign correspondent for the New York Times , describes war as ...
... PTSD among survivors and rescuers was 34 per cent . Projections based on the high prevalence of PTSD amongst the Oklahoma City survivors suggested that the dimension of the mental health problems facing the post - 9 / 11 American popula ...
... PTSD " or that people have " PTSD " , objected Gerald Rosen , one of the signatories of the letter.71 One consequence of the representation of the impact of 9/11 through the medium of psychology was to one - sidedly exaggerate the ...
... post- traumatic stress disorder , authorities are likely to respond to such a disaster with clearly focused therapeutic policies.87 Since the 1990s the history of Aberfan is being rewritten in line with today's therapeutic ethos ...
... post - traumatic stress disorder ' . All this speculation was based on extrapolation from a survey involving 100 women.94 As the following chapters will make clear , the discovery of un- disclosed mental health problems in the past says ...
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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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Sound Sentiments:Integrity in the Emotions: Integrity in the Emotions David Pugmire No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2005 |