Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain AgePsychology Press, 2004 - 245 Seiten 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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... creating a better Canada for the children of future generations ' , argues Professor Gus Thompson of the University of Alberta.13 Thompson believes that this problem is due to the fact that children in Canada have been subjected to more ...
... created children at high risk for unwarranted depression ' , he writes . 14 The discourse of emotional deficit pathologises bad feelings and turns an expanding variety of experiences into sites where emotional survival becomes an issue ...
... created a ' huge increase in clients ' . ' The only way to get therapy and counselling paid for ... is to get the ... creating a thriving market for its services . It is now assumed that people facing an unusual event Introduction 9.
... creating a demand for redundancy counsellors . Soon , these counsellors were not only managing those about to be made unemployed , but were also providing stress therapy to managers to help them handle making others redundant . 38 Since ...
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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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