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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... professional specialism . Advocates of this specialism in the US and the UK argue for the initiation of a mental health service for babies - a ' service designed to prevent early psychological damage from occurring by strengthening the ...
... professional specialism . Advocates of this specialism in the US and the UK argue for the initiation of a mental health service for babies - a ' service designed to prevent early psychological damage from occurring by strengthening the ...
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... professionals . Descriptions of the grief process were frequently transmitted through the media and specialist publications . These outlets often provided a ' do - it - yourself diagnostic tool kit ' through which people could make ...
... professionals . Descriptions of the grief process were frequently transmitted through the media and specialist publications . These outlets often provided a ' do - it - yourself diagnostic tool kit ' through which people could make ...
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... professional activities could contribute to healing the nation . Phillipe de Montbello , director of the New York ... professionals were critical of the powerful tendency to medicalise people's normal reaction to a major disaster . A ...
... professional activities could contribute to healing the nation . Phillipe de Montbello , director of the New York ... professionals were critical of the powerful tendency to medicalise people's normal reaction to a major disaster . A ...
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... professionals today'.81 Looking back on his data from the 1970s , Horwitz was struck by the relative absence of psychiatric labelling of the outpatients . ' In retrospect , what seems remarkable about these data is the insignificant ...
... professionals today'.81 Looking back on his data from the 1970s , Horwitz was struck by the relative absence of psychiatric labelling of the outpatients . ' In retrospect , what seems remarkable about these data is the insignificant ...
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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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Referencias a este libro
Governing Paradoxes of Restorative Justice George Pavlich No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2005 |
Sound Sentiments:Integrity in the Emotions: Integrity in the Emotions David Pugmire No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2005 |