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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... feelings . The language of emotionalism pervades popular culture , the world of politics , the workplace , schools ... feeling ' stressed out ' . Recently , the American Girl Scouts produced a ' stressless badge ' , embroidered with a ...
... feelings and well - being in the culture as a whole'.10 This turn towards emotionalism represents one of the most significant developments in contemporary western culture.11 The emotional deficit A closer inspection of therapeutic ...
... feelings of isolation , disappointment and failure . Through pathologising negative emotional responses to the pressures of life , contemporary culture unwittingly encourages people to feel traumatised and depressed by experiences ...
... feelings and turns an expanding variety of experiences into sites where emotional survival becomes an issue . This is a perspective that acts to persuade people to regard themselves as ill . The profound sense of emotional vulnerability ...
... feelings and concerns together - to reduce feelings of isolation and vulnerability'.62 Another guide , presented in the form of a questions and answers , advised people to ' pull together'.63 A survivor of the Oklahoma City bombing ...
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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Sound Sentiments:Integrity in the Emotions: Integrity in the Emotions David Pugmire No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2005 |