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. CULTURE VULNERABILITY CULTIVATING IN AN UNCERTAIN AGE FRANK FUREDL Therapy Culture Therapy Culture explores the powerful influence of therapeutic. THERAPY Front Cover.
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 ...
... 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 ...
... Therapy is sometime depicted as an American eccentricity . However , the impact of therapeutic intervention on British society is no less significant . Since the 1980s - when counselling became one of Britain's little growth industry ...
... therapeutic ethos . According to Nolan , this authority is based on a new priestly class , mainly psychiatrists and psychologists ' who can understand and can decipher the emotivist language emanating from the author- itative self ...
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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