Frank Furedi

Therapy Culture:Cultivating Vu

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Produktbeschreibung

Suggests that the cultural turn toward the realm of the emotions coincides with a redefinition of personhood, presenting vulnerability as the defining feature of our psychology. Furedi questions the thesis that this represents an enlightened shift.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 414g
• ISBN-13: 9780415321594
• ISBN-10: 041532159X
• Artikelnr.: 22225849

Autorenporträt

Frank Furedi is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, Canterbury.

Inhaltsangabe

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