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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... human condition . A Factiva search of 300 UK newspapers in 1980 did not find a single reference to the term self - esteem ( Figure 1 ) . It found three citations in 1986. By 1990 , this figure rose to 103. A decade later , in 2000 ...
... human condition . The perception of emotional deficit is underwritten by an intense sense of emotional vulnerability . As a result , society is in the process of drawing up a radi- cally new definition of what constitutes the human ...
... human experience into the grammar of risks has the potential of turning every new encounter into a test of emotional resilience . It 2000 7500 encourages the sense of emotional vulnerability and the adoption of Introduction 7.
... human resource management , the therapeutic approach has come to inform a growing range of practices . The Institute of Personnel and Development in London runs courses on emotional intelligence for executives and actively crusades for ...
... human subjectivity . Survivors of the Oklahoma City bombing were frequently featured as experts who could be relied on to instruct the public of what kind of reactions to expect . One mother , who lost her 4 - year - old daughter and ...
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 |