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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... significance that contemporary culture attaches to making sense of the world through the prism of emotion is shown by the way that therapeutic language and practices have expanded into everyday life . Children as young as 9 and 10 talk ...
... significance that contemporary culture attaches to making sense of the world through the prism of emotion is shown by the way that therapeutic language and practices have expanded into everyday life . Children as young as 9 and 10 talk ...
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... significant developments in contemporary western culture.11 The emotional deficit A closer inspection of therapeutic culture indicates that it speaks not so much about emotion as about the problem of emotional deficit . The concern with ...
... significant developments in contemporary western culture.11 The emotional deficit A closer inspection of therapeutic culture indicates that it speaks not so much about emotion as about the problem of emotional deficit . The concern with ...
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... significant . Since the 1980s - when counselling became one of Britain's little growth industry -the number of people practising talking cures has grown steadily.29 Even sections of the counselling profession are concerned by the ...
... significant . Since the 1980s - when counselling became one of Britain's little growth industry -the number of people practising talking cures has grown steadily.29 Even sections of the counselling profession are concerned by the ...
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... significant sections of the population were likely to suffer long - term psycholog- ical injury . ' Tens of thousands of public - school children in New York City are experiencing chronic nightmares , fear of public places , severe ...
... significant sections of the population were likely to suffer long - term psycholog- ical injury . ' Tens of thousands of public - school children in New York City are experiencing chronic nightmares , fear of public places , severe ...
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... significance that therapeutic culture attaches to damage caused to the emotion . The powerful influence of therapeutic culture over the way that September 11 was experienced is highlighted by the fact that it was so rarely contested.70 ...
... significance that therapeutic culture attaches to damage caused to the emotion . The powerful influence of therapeutic culture over the way that September 11 was experienced is highlighted by the fact that it was so rarely contested.70 ...
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 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Aberfan abuse According addiction advocates American argues associated authority become behaviour believe Britain British bullying cent child chronic fatigue syndrome claim codependency contemporary counselling crime Daily Telegraph defined demand Derek Summerfield diagnosis disease disorder distress emotional injury emotional intelligence emotional literacy emotionally everyday experience Factiva feelings fibromyalgia Furedi Guardian Holocaust human identity identity politics illness impact important increasingly individual individualised influence informal institutionalisation institutions intervention John Vasconcellos Lasch London medicalisation mental health moral Nolan noted organisation parents people's political politicians post-traumatic stress disorder potential powerlessness Primal Therapy private sphere problems professional promoted psychological damage psychologist PTSD recent recognition relations relationship represents responsibility risk role self-esteem sense sexual sick role significant social society stress suffering survivors syndrome therapeutic culture therapeutic ethos therapists therapy traditional trauma traumatised Ulrich Beck victimisation victims violence wider workplace
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