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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... provides a path - breaking analysis of the therapeutic turn . Frank Furedi is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent , Canterbury . His books include Paranoid Parenting and Culture of Fear . This One 48K7 - XC6-6NH7 ...
... provides counselling and psychotherapy for people whose pets have died.25 Therapists have assumed the role of relationship experts and have succeeded in establishing a demand for their services in virtually every institutional setting ...
... provides a script through which emotional deficits ' make their way into the cultural vernacular ' and become available for ' the construction of everyday reality'.46 From birth , to marriage and parenting , through to bereavement ...
... provides a way to ' stake one's claim to visible presence in the culture ' . Bereavement becomes not so much an act of remembrance about the dead , but a therapeutic statement about the survivor . That is 14 Introduction.
... provides a useful case study . The press coverage was mainly informational rather than emotional . Although the Queen ' sent sympathy to relatives ' , there was none of the emoting that one associates with the media coverage of ...
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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