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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... significance that contemporary culture attaches to making sense of the world through the prism of emotion is shown by the way that therapeutic language and practices have expanded into everyday life . Children as young as 9 and 10 talk ...
... significant developments in contemporary western culture.11 The emotional deficit A closer inspection of therapeutic culture indicates that it speaks not so much about emotion as about the problem of emotional deficit . The concern with ...
... significant . Since the 1980s - when counselling became one of Britain's little growth industry -the number of people practising talking cures has grown steadily.29 Even sections of the counselling profession are concerned by the ...
... significant sections of the population were likely to suffer long - term psycholog- ical injury . ' Tens of thousands of public - school children in New York City are experiencing chronic nightmares , fear of public places , severe ...
... significance that therapeutic culture attaches to damage caused to the emotion . The powerful influence of therapeutic culture over the way that September 11 was experienced is highlighted by the fact that it was so rarely contested.70 ...
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 |