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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... Citations of the word ' syndrome ' in British newspapers 1993-2000 5 Citations of the word ' counselling ' in British newspapers 1993-2000 34567 Acknowledgements This book owes a great debt of gratitude to List of figures.
... syndrome , mid - life crisis or counselling refer to the normal episodes of daily life . They have also become part of our cultural imagination . Most viewers did not think it was bizarre when Tony Soprano , head of America's favourite ...
... syndrome ' was entirely absent from the pages of American law journals during the 1950s , 1960s and 1970s . Yet by 1985 , the word ' syndrome ' appeared in 86 articles , in 1988 in 114 articles and by 1990 in 146 articles . In one month ...
... syndrome or counselling ( Figures 3-5 ) . The expanding usage of the idiom of therapeutics is not simply of linguistic interest . The changing form of language communicates new cultural attitudes and expectations . In particular , the ...
... syndrome ' in British newspapers 1993-2000 . Source : Factiva . Terrence Real , author of I Don t Want To Talk About It : Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression , contends that since the beginning of the twentieth century each ...
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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