Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vu

by Frank Furedi

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415321603
• ISBN13: 9780415321600
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.3"