Frank Furedi

Professor of Sociology at University of Kent, and author of Politics of Fear, Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?, Therapy Culture, Paranoid Parenting and Culture of Fear. 		 
       
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Frank launched his new book, Invitation to Terror, at the Battle of Ideas festival in London in October 2007. Watch the session on FORA.tv.
 

therapy culture

The Age of Unreason
Spectator, 18 November 2005
Celebrities, healers and new age gurus transmit the message that normal human beings cannot do it on their own

The blame game
BBC News, 6 September 2005
Who is responsible for natural disasters? God, nature, governments...

Our unhealthy obsession with sickness
spiked, 23 March 2005
Why is being ill now embraced as a positive part of the human experience?

Reflections on the medicalisation of social experience
British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, Vol 32, No 3A reply to Phillip Hodson

Diana syndrome - we get the conspiracies we deserve
Independent, 11 January 2004

Making people feel good about themselves
, 24 January 2003
Inaugural Lecture: British social policy and the construction of the problem of self-esteem

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