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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... emotionally scarred . People who have ' issues ' or who need to ' share ' are viewed as preoccupied with the realm of feelings . The language of emotionalism pervades popular culture , the world of politics , the workplace , schools and ...
... emotionally cope with a growing range of encounters , experiences and relationships informs the way that therapeutic culture makes sense of the human condition . The perception of emotional deficit is underwritten by an intense sense of ...
... 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 best dealt with ...
... emotionally oriented moral universe . The staggering growth in the numbers of psychologists , counsellors , therapists and social workers confirms the power of the therapeutic imperative . As Nolan noted . The monumental increase in the ...
... emotionally scarred for life is underwritten by radically new ideas about the working of human subjectivity . Survivors of the Oklahoma City bombing were frequently featured as experts who could be relied on to instruct the public of ...
Inhalt
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 Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2004 |
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