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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... ethos . According to Nolan , this authority is based on a new priestly class , mainly psychiatrists and psychologists ' who can understand and can decipher the emotivist language emanating from the author- itative self " . Nolan ...
... ethos . Numerous studies of this subject have noted that conventional moral meanings attached to concepts such as guilt and responsibility lose their salience in circum- stances where the therapeutic ethos gains influence . The ...
... ethos had gained influence over officials , policy - makers and business managers . Throughout the Second World War and the establishment of the Welfare State there were considerable opportunities for the institutionalisation of ...
... ethos of the US . But after the unprecedented display of public emotionalism over the death of Princess Diana in 1997 , it is difficult to sustain the myth that Britain is the land of the stiff upper lip . Since this event , the ...
... ethos . Researchers are busy helping survivors to reinterpret their experiences through the language of trauma . A collection of recently conducted interviews of Aberfan survivors suggests that , retrospectively , people have dis ...
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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