The Rise of the Therapeutic Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rise of the Therapeutic Society write by Katie Wright. This book was released on 2015-02-25. The Rise of the Therapeutic Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An examination of the Western world’s contemporary fascination with psychological life, and the historical developments that fostered it. In this book, sociologist Katie Wright traces the ascendancy of therapeutic culture, from nineteenth-century concerns about nervousness, to the growth of psychology, the diffusion of an analytic attitude, and the spread of therapy and counseling, using Australia as a focal point. Wright’s analysis, which draws on social theory, cultural history, and interviews with therapists and people in therapy, calls into question the pessimism that pervades many accounts of the therapeutic turn and provides an alternative assessment of its ramifications for social, political, and personal life in the globalized West. Special Commendation, TASA Raewyn Connell Prize
The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education
The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education write by Kathryn Ecclestone. This book was released on 2019-02-01. The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education confronts the silent ascendancy of a therapeutic ethos across the educational system and into the workplace. Controversial and compelling, Kathryn Ecclestone and Dennis Hayes’ classic text uses a wealth of examples across the education system, from primary schools to university and the workplace, to show how therapeutic education is turning children, young people and adults into anxious and self-preoccupied individuals rather than aspiring, optimistic and resilient learners who want to know everything about the world. Remaining extremely topical, the chapters illuminate the powerful effects of therapeutic education, including: How therapeutic learning is taking shape, now and in the future How therapeutic ideas from popular culture have come to govern social thought and policies How the fostering of dependence and compulsory participation in therapeutic activities that encourage the disclosing of emotions, can undermine parents’ and teachers’ confidence and authority How therapeutic forms of teacher training undermine faith in the pursuit of knowledge How political initiatives in emotional literacy, emotional wellbeing and ‘positive mental health’ propagate a diminished view of human potential throughout the education system and the workplace. The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education is an eye-opening read for every teacher and leader across the field of education, and every parent and student, who is passionate about the power of knowledge to transform people’s lives. It is a call for a debate about the growing impact of therapeutic education and what it means for learning now and in the future.
Rethinking Therapeutic Culture
Rethinking Therapeutic Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rethinking Therapeutic Culture write by Timothy Aubry. This book was released on 2015-06-05. Rethinking Therapeutic Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For the past half century, intellectuals and other critics have lamented America s descent into a therapeutic cultureor in Christopher Lasch s lasting phrase, a culture of narcissism. But is that the case? The essays in this collection take a fresh look at therapeutic culture and its critiques. Rather than a cesspool of self-involvement, therapeutic culture may instead be a productive and meaningful way that people negotiate with issues of culture, society, race, gender, and identity. Most important, the editors and contributors grapple with the historically and socially constructed nature of therapeutic culture and its influence. With its dazzling array of contributors and perspectives, this is a book worth getting off the couch for."
The Rise of the Therapeutic State
The Rise of the Therapeutic State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rise of the Therapeutic State write by Andrew J. Polsky. This book was released on 1993-07-26. The Rise of the Therapeutic State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Assuming that "marginal" citizens cannot govern their own lives, proponents of the therapeutic state urge casework intervention to reshape the attitudes and behaviors of those who live outside the social mainstream. Thus the victims of poverty, delinquency, family violence, and other problems are to be "normalized." But "normalize," to Andrew Polsky, is a term that "jars the ear, as well it should when we consider what this effort is all about." Here he investigates the broad network of public agencies that adopt the casework approach.
The Triumph of the Therapeutic
The Triumph of the Therapeutic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Triumph of the Therapeutic write by Philip Rieff. This book was released on 1987-03-15. The Triumph of the Therapeutic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Philip Rieff has become out most learned and provocative critic of psychoanalytic thinking and of the compelling mind and character of its first proponent. Rieff's Freud: The Mind of the Moralist remains the sharpest exegesis yet to be done on the moral and intellectual implications of Freud's work. It was a critical masterpiece, worthy of the man who inspired it; and it is now followed by a work that suffers not at all in comparison. No review can do justice to the richness of The Triumph of the Therapeutic."—Robert Coles, New York Times Book Review "A triumphantly successful exploration of certain key themes in cultural life. Rieff's incidental remarks are not only illuminating in themselves; they suggest whole new areas of inquiry."—Alasdair MacIntyre, Guardian
