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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... victims to pass through the shock and denial stages , adopt coping strategies and behaviors and address the consequences of those behaviors ' . 55 Even if people appeared to have weathered the shock , the road to recovery would stretch ...
... victim assistance organisations a day after the attack.61 The National Association of School Psychologists issued an extensive guideline ' Memorials / Activities / Rituals Following Traumatic Events - Suggestions For Schools ' . The ...
... victims rather than as concerned citizens . The therapeutic response to September 11 highlights many of the trends that are evident during the course of less publicised tragedies and adverse episodes . In Britain , the consequences of ...
... victims could not be expected to deal with such problems on their own . A recently published book on Aberfan is genuinely perturbed by the stoicism of the survivors of this strategy . It documents how people perceived offers of ...
... victims whose emotional needs were ignored by a callous officialdom . The stoic response to the tragedy at Aberfan was by no means exceptional . The public presentation of the 1952 and 1953 flood disaster that led to death of 164 people ...
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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Sound Sentiments:Integrity in the Emotions: Integrity in the Emotions David Pugmire No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2005 |