Therapy culture : cultivating vulnerability in an uncertain age

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Therapy culture : cultivating vulnerability in an uncertain age

Frank Furedi

Routledge, 2004

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [226]-236) and index

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巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780415321594

内容説明

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.

目次

  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 The culture of emotionalism
  • Chapter 2 The politics of emotion
  • Chapter 3 Targeting privacy and informal relations
  • Chapter 4 How did we get here?
  • Chapter 5 The diminished self
  • Chapter 6 The self at risk
  • Chapter 7 Fragile identity
  • Chapter 8 Conferring recognition
  • Chapter 9 Therapeutic claims-making and the demand for a diagnosis
  • Final thoughts
巻冊次

ISBN 9780415321600

内容説明

First published in 2004. 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 towards 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 'at risk', 'scarred for life' or 'emotional damage' evoke a unique sense of powerlessness. Furedi questions widely accepted thesis that the 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.

目次

  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 The culture of emotionalism
  • Chapter 2 The politics of emotion
  • Chapter 3 Targeting privacy and informal relations
  • Chapter 4 How did we get here?
  • Chapter 5 The diminished self
  • Chapter 6 The self at risk
  • Chapter 7 Fragile identity
  • Chapter 8 Conferring recognition
  • Chapter 9 Therapeutic claims-making and the demand for a diagnosis
  • Final thoughts

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