Therapy culture : cultivating vulnerability in an uncertain age / Frank Furedi.
Therapy culture : cultivating vulnerability in an uncertain age / Frank Furedi.
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London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Date
2004.
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N302/ 161
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English
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[ix], 245 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. The culture of emotionalism -- 2. The politics of emotion -- 3. Targeting privacy and informal relations -- 4. How did we get here? -- 5. The diminished self -- 6. The self at risk -- 7. Fragile identity: hooked on self-esteem -- 8. Conferring recognition: the quest for identity and the state --...
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London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
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England
Date Published
2004.
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Drawing on developments in popular culture, political and social life, Furedi provides a path-breaking analysis of the therapeutic turn."--BOOK JACKET....
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Therapy culture : cultivating vulnerability in an uncertain age / Frank Furedi.
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Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [226]-236.
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N302/ 161
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74Vv5Emr0NPd
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ISBN
0415321603 (hardcover : alk. paper)
041532159X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780415321600 (cased)
0415321603 (cased)
041532159X (pbk.)
9780415321600 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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302
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991017743699702626