Therapy Culture - Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age (Furedi Frank)(Paperback)
EAN: 9780415321594
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
Cena 1 270 Kč v 1 obchodě
Obchody, které prodávají Therapy Culture - Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age (Furedi Frank)(Paperback)
Zobrazit historii ceny Therapy Culture - Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age (Furedi Frank)(Paperback)
Historie nejnižsí ceny Therapy Culture - Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age (Furedi Frank)(Paperback). Porovnání obchodů, které prodávají Therapy Culture - Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age (Furedi Frank)(Paperback).