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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... therapist myself about a year ago ' , hardened mobster Paulie Walnuts tells Tony on one show . ' I had some issues ' , he informs his Mafia boss . Nor is the new language of therapy confined to describing the state of emotion of the ...
... Therapists have assumed the role of relationship experts and have succeeded in establishing a demand for their services in virtually every institutional setting . In the 1960s , around 14 per cent of the American public had received ...
... therapists and social workers confirms the power of the therapeutic imperative . As Nolan noted . The monumental increase in the psychologization of modern life is also evident in the fact that there are more therapists than librarians ...
... therapist . Organisations that have sought to harness therapeutic expertise for the work of the Church inevitably assume a secular orientation . The Westminster Pastoral Foundation , for example , which was established by a Methodist ...
... therapist to shaping public perceptions about a variety of issues . At that point it ceases to be a clinical technique and becomes an instrument for the management of subjectivity . A culture encompasses a system of beliefs about 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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