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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... of human experience into the grammar of risks has the potential of turning every new encounter into a test of emotional resilience . It 2000 7500 encourages the sense of emotional vulnerability and the adoption of Introduction 7.
... potential threat to a child's emotional well - being . The complex emotional tensions that are integral to the process of growing up are now often defined as stressful events with which children cannot be expected to cope . Concern with ...
... potential flashpoints during a World Cup qualifier in Munich 24 One company has launched a pet insurance package that provides counselling and psychotherapy for people whose pets have died.25 Therapists have assumed the role of ...
... potential for great psychological damage to a population represented as traumatised was circulated as a matter of incon- trovertible fact . From the outset , therapeutic activists and health professionals predicted that millions of ...
... potential trauma victims rather than as concerned citizens . The therapeutic response to September 11 highlights many of the trends that are evident during the course of less publicised tragedies and adverse episodes . In Britain , the ...
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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