Borderline Welfare: Feeling and Fear of Feeling in Modern Welfare
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2005
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 250
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 17086
- ISBN 13 : 9781855759053
- ISBN 10 : 1855759055
Table of Contents
Series Editor’s Preface
Introduction: The psychoanalytic study of welfare
1. Borderline states of mind and society
2. The state of mind we’re in: sincerity, anxiety, and the audit society
3. The psychic geography of racism: the state, the clinician, and hatred of the stranger
5. The broken link: polemic and pain in mental health work
5. Surface tensions: emotion, conflict, and the social containment of dangerous knowledge
6. Surface and depth in the Victoria Climbié Inquiry Report: exploring emotionally intelligent policy
7. The vanishing organization: organizational containment in a networked world
Conclusion: complex dependencies and the dilemmas of modern welfare
Methodological reflections: clinical sensibility and the study of the social