Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age

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Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age by Frank Furedi
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Frank Furedi chronology (books as sole author)
Paranoid Parenting: Abandon Your Anxieties and Be a Good Parent (2001, revised edition 2002)	Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age (2003)	Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?: Confronting Twenty-First Century Philistinism (2004)

Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age is a book by the Hungarian sociologist Frank Furedi, published by Routledge in 2003 (ISBN 0-415-32159-X)

Contents 1 Contents 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Chapters 1.3 Final thoughts: does it matter? 2 External links

[edit] Contents

[edit] Introduction

1. The emotional deficit
2. Therapeutic intervention
3. The therapeutic system of meaning
4. A system of meaning for our time
5. The book

[edit] Chapters

1. The culture of emotionalism
   1. Recasting social problems as emotional ones
   2. Ambiguities about emotion
   3. Emotions as objects of management
   4. Feeling in public
   5. The rise of the confessional
2. The politics of emotion
   1. The changing status of emotions in public life
   2. Managerialism with an emotional face
   3. Therapeutic participation
   4. The therapeutic political style
   5. The institutionalisation of therapeutic politics
3. Targeting privacy and informal relations
   1. The sordid secrets of private life
   2. And the surprising degradation of the public
   3. Targeting informal relations
   4. Criminalising interpersonal relationships
   5. Conclusion
4. How did we get here?
   1. The decline of tradition
   2. The decline of religion and of shared moral norms
   3. The demise of politics
   4. Social control
   5. The professionalisation of everyday life
   6. Conclusion: the disorganisation of the private sphere
5. The diminished self
   1. The vulnerable self
   2. Victims of circumstance
   3. The fetish of addiction
   4. The socialisation of the passive subject
6. The self at risk
   1. At risk - the objectification of the self
   2. The fearful subject
   3. Risky relationships
7. Fragile identity: hooked on self-esteem
   1. The inward turn
   2. Cultivating the identity of estrangement
   3. Ceaseless demand for identity
   4. Self-esteem: a cultural myth for our times
   5. The backlash against the myth
   6. An anti-intellectual emotional ethos
8. Conferring recognition: the quest for identity and the state
   1. The state of recognition
   2. Emptying respect of its moral content
   3. Confusing recognition with a diagnosis
   4. Conclusion
9. Therapeutic claims making and the demand for a diagnosis
   1. Therapeutic claims making
   2. The authority of the victim
   3. A moral claim to the truth
   4. A claim for resources
   5. Therapeutic standards of accountability
   6. Who can we blame?

[edit] Final thoughts: does it matter?

1. Intolerance of dissident emotions
2. A demand for emotional conformity
3. The new conservatism

[edit] External links

• Frank Furedi

  Official website

• Routledge

  Official website