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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... argues that the events of 9/1I have inflicted a ' cultural trauma ' on America.3 Similar sentiments were echoed in Australia after the bombing of a nightclub on the island of Bali led to the loss of lives of its citizens . Australia was ...
... argues Professor Gus Thompson of the University of Alberta.13 Thompson believes that this problem is due to the fact that children in Canada have been subjected to more childhood trauma over recent decades than their predecessors ...
... argues that one in ten student seeking university counselling is ' already suicidal'.16 Some researchers in the us argue that schools play an important role in laying the groundwork for depression'.17 In the UK school exams have been ...
... argue for the initiation of a mental health service for babies - a ' service designed to prevent early psychological ... argues Totton.30 Evidently , the counselling professions have proved successful in creating a thriving market for ...
... argues an American study of this subject.48 As a result , the attempt to gain meaning of new experiences and developments is often pursued through the prism of therapeutics . Even major catastrophes and unusual momentous events are made ...
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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Governing Paradoxes of Restorative Justice George Pavlich No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2005 |
Sound Sentiments:Integrity in the Emotions: Integrity in the Emotions David Pugmire No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2005 |