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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Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age Frank Furedi. Therapy Culture Therapy Culture explores the powerful influence of therapeutic imperative in Anglo - American societies . In recent decades virtually every sphere of life has ...
... therapeutic culture , I was able to profit from the exchange of views with a number of individuals carrying out research in related areas . In Britain , the work of Derek Summerfield . Simon Wessely , David Wainwright , Ralph Fevre and ...
... culture that takes emotions very seriously . In fact it takes them so seriously that virtually every challenge or misfortune that confronts people is represented as a direct threat to their ... therapeutic culture . ' I was Introduction.
Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age Frank Furedi. idiom provided by America's therapeutic culture . ' I was seeing a therapist myself about a year ago ' , hardened mobster Paulie Walnuts tells Tony on one show . ' I had some ...
... 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 people's self - esteem is with its low level ...
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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