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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... 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 ...
... people is represented as a direct threat to their emotional well - being . Everyday disappointments - rejection , failure , being overlooked - are regarded as risks to our self - esteem . When people are described or describe themselves ...
... people of Oklahoma City , there was ' the unspoken message ' that the grieving process should proceed along the ... people by the early 1990s . Even in the 1980s , people had never heard of terms like generalised anxiety disorder ( being ...
... people's self - esteem is with its low level . Low self - esteem is invariably interpreted and So widespread are deliberations about self - esteem that it is easy to overlook the fact that the problems associated with it are of ...
... people's emotions . People , particularly children , are said to be prone to a bewildering variety of conditions and psychological illnesses , such as depression or stress - related diseases . Invariably , the public is told that more ...
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 |