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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... impact on my thoughts on this subject . I am particularly grateful to Vanessa Pupavac and Eleanor Lee for their inspiring comments and criticism . Through discussing therapeutic culture we have become collaborators in the genuine sense ...
... impact of this tragedy on the people of Oklahoma City , there was ' the unspoken message ' that the grieving process should proceed along the lines dictated by therapeutic knowledge.6 The tendency to reinterpret not just troublesome but ...
... one account , in the US ' psychological depression is a greater scourge than poverty ' . Moreover , its impact on society is growing all the time . 2000 24000 22000 0 7500 7000 6500 6000 5500 5000 4500 4000 3500 Introduction 5.
... impact of therapeutic intervention on British society is no less significant . Since the 1980s - when counselling became one of Britain's little growth industry -the number of people practising talking cures has grown steadily.29 Even ...
... impact on people's mental state and emotions . There has been an emphasis on perceiving an attack on a nation as an assault on society's collective and individual mental health . The response to the destruction of the World Trade Center ...
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 |