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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... suffer from an emotional deficit informs discussions of the subject of emotional intelligence and emotional literacy ... suffering from depression is rising and that this is likely to lead to a growing incidence of this disease amongst ...
... suffering mental health problems.15 One survey stated that 53 per cent of UK university students had ' anxiety at a ... suffer from exam stress ' . In some schools , children as young as ten are being offered hypnosis to help boost their ...
... suffer trauma and long - term emotional injury . A survey carried out in the days after the attack found that 90 per cent of American adults reported a substantial level of at least one symptom of stress.50 Within hours of the event ...
... 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 anxiety and other mental health problems months after the ...
... suffering and trauma is not inevitably associated with increased morbidity ' . In these instances , an increased sense of solidarity and community provided people with a sense of meaning through which they could make sense of the ...
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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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 |