Frank Furedi has worked on the cultural dimensions the therapeutic turn in Western societies He has explored the way that the therapeutic imagination has impacted on parenting, education, socialisation and a variety of different dimensions of social education. His most recent book, What Has Happened To The University; A Sociological Exploration Of Its Infantilisation (Routledge 2016) examines the relationship between the impact of the institutionalisation of a therapeutic sensibility. He is currently engaged is a study of the distinctive features of the current regime of socialisation.
Related Publications
Books
What’s Happened To The University?: A Sociological Exploration Of Its Infantilization, Routledge : London.
Wasted: Why Education Is Not Educating, Continuum Press, 2009.
Invitation to Terror; the Expanding Empire of the Unknown, Continuum Press, 2007. (translated into Croatian, Polish).
Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Anxious Age, Routledge 2003.
Paranoid Parenting, Penguin/Alan Lane, 2001.
Articles
"The Cultural Underpinning of Concept Creep." Psychological Inquiry 27.1 (2016): 34-39.
‘Fear and Security: A Vulnerability-led Policy Response’, Social Policy & Administration, December 2008.
‘Vulnerability – Analytical Concept or Rhetorical Idiom’ in Satterthwaite, J., Wattas, M. & Piper, H. (eds) (2008) Talking Truth, Confronting Power, Trentham Books : Stoke on Trent.
.’Medicalisation in a Therapy Culture’ in David Wainwright (ed) (2008) A Sociology of Health, Sage Publications: London.
‘Coping With Adversity: The Turn to the Rhetoric of Vulnerability’, Security Journal, April 2007.
‘From the narrative of the Blitz to the rhetoric of vulnerability’, Cultural Sociology, vol 1, no. 2 (July 2007).
Reflections on the Medicalisation of Social Experience’, British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, vol. 3, no.2, August 2004, pp.413-415.
‘The Silent Ascendancy of Therapeutic Culture in Britain’, Society, vol.39, no.3, March/April 2002.
Related Publications
Books
What’s Happened To The University?: A Sociological Exploration Of Its Infantilization, Routledge : London.
Wasted: Why Education Is Not Educating, Continuum Press, 2009.
Invitation to Terror; the Expanding Empire of the Unknown, Continuum Press, 2007. (translated into Croatian, Polish).
Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Anxious Age, Routledge 2003.
Paranoid Parenting, Penguin/Alan Lane, 2001.
Articles
"The Cultural Underpinning of Concept Creep." Psychological Inquiry 27.1 (2016): 34-39.
‘Fear and Security: A Vulnerability-led Policy Response’, Social Policy & Administration, December 2008.
‘Vulnerability – Analytical Concept or Rhetorical Idiom’ in Satterthwaite, J., Wattas, M. & Piper, H. (eds) (2008) Talking Truth, Confronting Power, Trentham Books : Stoke on Trent.
.’Medicalisation in a Therapy Culture’ in David Wainwright (ed) (2008) A Sociology of Health, Sage Publications: London.
‘Coping With Adversity: The Turn to the Rhetoric of Vulnerability’, Security Journal, April 2007.
‘From the narrative of the Blitz to the rhetoric of vulnerability’, Cultural Sociology, vol 1, no. 2 (July 2007).
Reflections on the Medicalisation of Social Experience’, British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, vol. 3, no.2, August 2004, pp.413-415.
‘The Silent Ascendancy of Therapeutic Culture in Britain’, Society, vol.39, no.3, March/April 2002.