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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... offered aromatherapy , foot and hand massages , as well as lavender - soaked tissues to help reduce stress and aggression.1 Children's behaviour is increasingly portrayed through a psychological label . They are often diagnosed as ...
... offered hypnosis to help boost their exam performance . 18 The transformation of the experience of school into a regime of high risk has as its premise the belief that virtually any event represents a potential threat to a child's ...
... offered to individuals facing unexpected or difficult or challenging or unpleasant encounters . English football fans were surprised to find out that the German police employed stress counsellors to diffuse potential flashpoints during ...
... offered to council workers to help them overcome any sense of loss they might experience . The employees were warned that the experience could be like the death of a ' friend or a loved one ' . Staff were told to expect symptoms , such ...
... offered stress counselling ( 49 per cent ) to help with the effects of the long - hours culture than be offered assistance with their basic childcare needs'.41 The expansion of therapeutic intervention into all areas of society has been ...
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 |