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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... represented as emotionally traumatic and it is argued that post- birth stress effects at least one in four mothers . At the other end of the life spectrum , grief is no longer depicted as a pain to be endured , but as a process that is ...
... represented in such pathological terms it is not surprising to discover that many soldiers regard their experience of combat as a risk to their mental health . Every major conflict appears to be followed by its own syndrome . The Gulf ...
... represented as traumatised was circulated as a matter of incon- trovertible fact . From the outset , therapeutic activists and health professionals predicted that millions of Americans would suffer trauma and long - term emotional ...
... represents an important departure from previous norms of memoralisation . It followed the pattern established in Oklahoma City , where the so - called memorial process ' was consciously designed to be therapeutic : to help the community ...
... represent this reaction in psychomedical terms . Through this language , therapeutic activists sought to provide meaning to an event that appeared beyond comprehension . The American Psychological Association self - consciously embraced ...
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 |