Therapy Culture:Cultivating Vu

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Routledge, 2013 M10 28 - 257 páginas
First published in 2004. 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 towards 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 'at risk', 'scarred for life' or 'emotional damage' evoke a unique sense of powerlessness. Furedi questions widely accepted thesis that the 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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Introduction
1
1 The culture of emotionalism
24
2 The politics of emotion
44
3 Targeting privacy and informal relations
66
4 How did we get here?
84
5 The diminished self
106
6 The self at risk
127
Hooked on selfesteem
143
The quest for identity and the state
162
9 Therapeutic claimsmaking and the demand for a diagnosis
175
Does it matter?
195
Notes
205
Bibliography
226
Index
237
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Frank Furedi is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, Canterbury.

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