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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... authority of counselling rests on its ability to give meaning to experience in a world strongly wedded to a therapeutic ethos . According to Nolan , this authority is based on a new priestly class , mainly psychiatrists and ...
... authorities and the community was actively encouraged to participate in memorial activities . In the UK , the words ' counselling is being offered ' conveys a sense that something exceptionally serious has happened . A system of meaning ...
... authority is particularly striking in relation to its former competitor - religious institutions . Recently , the Archbishop of Canterbury has claimed that therapy was replacing Christianity in western countries . According to ...
... authority is manifest in relation to the way society engages with the phenomenon of death . Tony Walter's important exploration into this subject suggests that the experience of bereavement has changed away from the external mourning ...
... 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 . Researchers are busy helping survivors ...
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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