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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... important for the development of my arguments . In the US , the work of James Nolan and Joel Best helped clarify some key issues that relate to this text . The participants of a small symposium on Therapeutic Culture Wars , held at ...
... important role in laying the groundwork for depression'.17 In the UK school exams have been criticised on the grounds that they create stress and other illnesses among children . According to one survey , more than half of all 7 - year ...
... important role in constructing the idiom of an emotionally oriented moral universe . The staggering growth in the numbers of psychologists , counsellors , therapists and social workers confirms the power of the therapeutic imperative ...
... important stress was placed on the mental health consequences of this episode and the pain and the hurt that was the legacy of 9/11 was frequently depicted in terms of their impact on emotions . Grief and bereave- ment were presented as ...
... important function in the healing process for both students and staff ” . It added that a ' signifi- cant purpose of a memorial activity is to bring people together in order to express feelings and concerns together - to reduce feelings ...
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 |