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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... issues that relate to this text . The participants of a small symposium on Therapeutic Culture Wars , held at Boston University in March 2001 , had a huge impact on my thoughts on this subject . I am particularly grateful to Vanessa ...
... 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 universities and everyday life . The ...
... issues ' , he informs his Mafia boss . Nor is the new language of therapy confined to describing the state of emotion of the individual . In the US , an urban renewal project is described as a ' confidence- building programme ' designed ...
... issue . This is a perspective that acts to persuade people to regard themselves as ill . The profound sense of emotional vulnerability is the product of tendency to objectify the uncertainties of life and to recast them in the amplified ...
... issues . At that point it ceases to be a clinical technique and becomes an instrument for the management of subjectivity . A culture encompasses a system of beliefs about the meaning of life and offers a vocabulary through which we can ...
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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