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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... 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 many as 2 million American children may have ADHD.2 The vocabulary of ...
... disorder ( being worried ) , social anxiety disorder ( being shy ) , social phobia ( being really shy ) , or free - floating anxiety ( not knowing what you are worried about ) . Take the word ' self - esteem ' . Today , a low level of ...
... disorders each year.28 Therapy is sometime depicted as an American eccentricity . However , the impact of therapeutic intervention on British society is no less significant . Since the 1980s - when counselling became one of Britain's ...
... disorders and panic attacks . The council employed 18 counsellors to help employees identify signs of stress and to ' tap into their inner strengths'.31 The authority of counselling rests on its ability to give meaning to experience in ...
... 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 a form of drug ...
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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