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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... defines it as ' favourable appreciation or opinion of oneself ' and makes no reference to its link with problems of the emotion . In contrast today , low self - esteem is one of the most overused diagnoses for the problem of the human ...
... definition of what constitutes the human condition . Many experiences that have hitherto been interpreted as a normal part of life have been redefined as damaging to people's emotions . People , particularly children , are said to be ...
... defined as stressful events with which children cannot be expected to cope . Concern with children's stress has led some schools to train young students in ' anger management ' skills . A project in inner- city Birmingham has been ...
... defined ideals of illness and of self - esteem assume a more central place in the adjucative process , the notion of guilt is made increasingly less relevant'.47 The " reigning paradigm of moral understanding ' is ' therapeutic to the ...
... definition . Experience suggests that the impact on the national psyche of sudden military attacks , such as the bombing of Pearl Harbor , the Blitz , terrorist attacks in London and suicide bombers in Jerusalem are mediated through ...
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 |