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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... authority of counselling rests on its ability to give meaning to experience in a world strongly wedded to a therapeutic ethos . According to Nolan , this authority is based on a new priestly class , mainly psychiatrists and ...
... authority of counselling rests on its ability to give meaning to experience in a world strongly wedded to a therapeutic ethos . According to Nolan , this authority is based on a new priestly class , mainly psychiatrists and ...
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... authorities and the community was actively encouraged to participate in memorial activities . In the UK , the words ' counselling is being offered ' conveys a sense that something exceptionally serious has happened . A system of meaning ...
... authorities and the community was actively encouraged to participate in memorial activities . In the UK , the words ' counselling is being offered ' conveys a sense that something exceptionally serious has happened . A system of meaning ...
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... authority is particularly striking in relation to its former competitor - religious institutions . Recently , the Archbishop of Canterbury has claimed that therapy was replacing Christianity in western countries . According to ...
... authority is particularly striking in relation to its former competitor - religious institutions . Recently , the Archbishop of Canterbury has claimed that therapy was replacing Christianity in western countries . According to ...
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... authority is manifest in relation to the way society engages with the phenomenon of death . Tony Walter's important exploration into this subject suggests that the experience of bereavement has changed away from the external mourning ...
... authority is manifest in relation to the way society engages with the phenomenon of death . Tony Walter's important exploration into this subject suggests that the experience of bereavement has changed away from the external mourning ...
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... authorities are likely to respond to such a disaster with clearly focused therapeutic policies.87 Since the 1990s the history of Aberfan is being rewritten in line with today's therapeutic ethos . Researchers are busy helping survivors ...
... authorities are likely to respond to such a disaster with clearly focused therapeutic policies.87 Since the 1990s the history of Aberfan is being rewritten in line with today's therapeutic ethos . Researchers are busy helping survivors ...
Contenido
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 limitada - 2004 |
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Aberfan abuse According addiction advocates American argues associated authority become behaviour believe Britain British bullying cent child chronic fatigue syndrome claim codependency contemporary counselling crime Daily Telegraph defined demand Derek Summerfield diagnosis disease disorder distress emotional injury emotional intelligence emotional literacy emotionally everyday experience Factiva feelings fibromyalgia Furedi Guardian Holocaust human identity identity politics illness impact important increasingly individual individualised influence informal institutionalisation institutions intervention John Vasconcellos Lasch London medicalisation mental health moral Nolan noted organisation parents people's political politicians post-traumatic stress disorder potential powerlessness Primal Therapy private sphere problems professional promoted psychological damage psychologist PTSD recent recognition relations relationship represents responsibility risk role self-esteem sense sexual sick role significant social society stress suffering survivors syndrome therapeutic culture therapeutic ethos therapists therapy traditional trauma traumatised Ulrich Beck victimisation victims violence wider workplace
Referencias a este libro
Sound Sentiments:Integrity in the Emotions: Integrity in the Emotions David Pugmire Sin vista previa disponible - 2005 |