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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... child could acquire the label of ' attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ' . Between 1990 and 1995 , the United States has seen a doubling in the number of children diagnosed with attention deficit disorder . Experts claim that as ...
... children , are said to be prone to a bewildering variety of conditions and psychological illnesses , such as depression or stress - related diseases . Invariably , the public is told that more and more people are afflicted with these ...
... children likely to be unhappier than their predecessors , but without some dramatic change in their life course , they will be less well - equipped for the task of creating a better Canada for the children of future generations ...
... children at high risk for unwarranted depression ' , he writes . 14 The discourse of emotional deficit pathologises bad feelings and turns an expanding variety of experiences into sites where emotional survival becomes an issue . This ...
... child's emotional well - being . The complex emotional tensions that are integral to the process of growing up are now often defined as stressful events with which children cannot be expected to cope . Concern with children's stress has ...
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 |