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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... illnesses , such as depression or stress - related diseases . Invariably , the public is told that more and more people are afflicted with these emotional injuries . For example , it is frequently claimed that the number of children ...
... illnesses , such as depression or stress - related diseases . Invariably , the public is told that more and more people are afflicted with these emotional injuries . For example , it is frequently claimed that the number of children ...
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... illness and that their students are increasingly suffering mental health problems.15 One survey stated that 53 per ... illnesses among children . According to one survey , more than half of all 7 - year - old children ' suffer from exam ...
... illness and that their students are increasingly suffering mental health problems.15 One survey stated that 53 per ... illnesses among children . According to one survey , more than half of all 7 - year - old children ' suffer from exam ...
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... illnesses , including post- traumatic stress disorder ( PTSD ) . The very conduct of war is regularly portrayed through the language of mental illness . A recent book on war by Chris Hedges , a foreign correspondent for the New York ...
... illnesses , including post- traumatic stress disorder ( PTSD ) . The very conduct of war is regularly portrayed through the language of mental illness . A recent book on war by Chris Hedges , a foreign correspondent for the New York ...
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... illness and of self - esteem assume a more central place in the adjucative process , the notion of guilt is made increasingly less relevant'.47 The " reigning paradigm of moral understanding ' is ' therapeutic to the core ' argues an ...
... illness and of self - esteem assume a more central place in the adjucative process , the notion of guilt is made increasingly less relevant'.47 The " reigning paradigm of moral understanding ' is ' therapeutic to the core ' argues an ...
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... group was concerned about the widespread labelling of people's stress reactions as a type of illness . ' Instead of people saying that it is common to have bad dreams or trouble sleeping when we are stressed , they say Introduction 15.
... group was concerned about the widespread labelling of people's stress reactions as a type of illness . ' Instead of people saying that it is common to have bad dreams or trouble sleeping when we are stressed , they say Introduction 15.
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 |
Términos y frases comunes
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 |