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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... problems from crime to teenage pregnancy . Most people have become exposed to discussions of self - esteem through ... problem , the term itself had no therapeutic connotations . In the seventeenth 2 Introduction.
... problems of the emotion . In contrast today , low self - esteem is one of the most overused diagnoses for the problem of the human condition . A Factiva search of 300 UK newspapers in 1980 did not find a single reference to the term ...
... problem of emotional deficit . The concern with people's self - esteem is with its low level . Low self - esteem is ... problems associated with it are of relatively recent invention . The transformation of self - esteem into a widely ...
... problems.15 One survey stated that 53 per cent of UK university students had ' anxiety at a pathological level ' and the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy ( BACP ) argues that one in ten student seeking university ...
... problems of the emotion ought not be faced by people on their own . Therapeutic intervention and counselling is continually offered to individuals facing unexpected or difficult or challenging or unpleasant encounters . English football ...
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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