• Author: by Kathryn Ecclestone and Dennis Hayes
• Publisher: Routledge
• ISBN-10: 0415397014
• ISBN-13: 978-0415397018

Therapy culture and its critics

Ecclestone and Hayes hope that restoring humanist education would provide people with the means to reconceptualise their plight and develop new, transformatory visions. But if social atomisation produced the therapeutic turn, it also constitutes a barrier to escaping it, and cannot simply be willed away by an exhortation to rediscover subjectivity.

Therapy culture revisited

Our view is that education is now the key to our future. This is not to revert to an archaic form of change through education but to recognise that, at the present moment, it is only by asserting subjects that we can develop subjectivity.