Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age

By Frank Furedi. 2003

460 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Acknowledging the affective in higher education (2007, background): “The rational-emotional dilemma continues to attract intense debate, with defenders of the cogito of the Enlightenment denigrating attempts to think about learning from the perspective of the whole self as a collapse into relativism and an improper concern for the therapeutic rather than the pedagogi”
On Being Positive: Concerns and Counterpoints (2006, background): “Furedi (2003), for example, argues that all positive discourses contribute to pathologizing negative emotional responses to the pressures of life.”
Critical Psychology: What It Is and What It Is Not (2007, background): “Now, we are invited, incited to talk about emotions that lie hidden inside as a prerequisite for helping ourselves (Furedi, 2003).”
Changing the subject: the educational implications of developing emotional well‐being (2009, background): “since 1997 has been the government’s particular conceptualisation of social justice, where social policy has connected emotional well-being to a view that social exclusion emerges from destructive influences that damage self-esteem and emotional wellbeing and is therefore a key characteristic of soc”