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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... experience through the medium of an emotional script can be see through the phenomenal expansion of psychological labels and therapeutic terms . According to one study the term " syndrome ' was entirely absent from the pages of American ...
... experiences into sites where emotional survival becomes an issue . This is a perspective that acts to persuade people to ... experience into the grammar of risks has the potential of turning every new encounter into a test of emotional ...
... experience of school into a regime of high risk has as its premise the belief that virtually any event represents a potential threat to a child's emotional well - being . The complex emotional tensions that are integral to the process ...
... experience . The employees were warned that the experience could be like the death of a ' friend or a loved one ' . Staff were told to expect symptoms , such as loss of libido , mood swings , eating disorders and panic attacks . The ...
... experience of combat as a risk to their mental health . Every major conflict appears to be followed by its own syndrome . The Gulf War syndrome has been followed by the Balkans syndrome , Kosovo syndrome , Chechen syndrome and Intifada ...
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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