1st Edition
Therapy Culture Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age
By Frank Furedi
Copyright 2004
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
257 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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;
Biography
Frank Furedi is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, Canterbury.
'Therapy is indeed the new opium of the people, as Frank Furedi makes clear in this fascinating, readable - and disturbing - book.' - Virginia Ironside, The Independent
'Can it really be such a bad thing that we are now more aware of the place of mental health in our make-up? Furedi leaves us in no doubt that the therapy culture has invaded our media, our workplace, our intimate relationships and our politics. It is an interesting polemic. We should be grateful for the balance this book inspires'
- Community Care 25/4/04
