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Borderline welfare : feeling and fear of feeling in modern welfare / Andrew Cooper and Julian Lousada

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Cooper, Andrew, 1953 May 21-
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London : Karnac, 2005.
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1 online resource (xii, 237 pages).
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Lousada, Julian
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Contents
Ch. 1. Introduction : the psychoanalytic study of welfare -- Ch. 2. Borderline states of mind and society -- Ch. 3. The state of mind we're in : sincerity, anxiety, and the audit society -- Ch. 4. The psychic geography of racism : the state, the clinician, and hatred of the stranger -- Ch. 5. The broken link : polemic and pain in mental health work -- Ch. 6. Surface tensions : emotion, conflict, and the social containment of dangerous knowledge -- Ch. 7. Surface and depth in the Victoria Climbie inquiry report : exploring emotionally intelligent policy -- Ch. 8. The vanishing organization : organizational containment in a networked world -- Ch. 9. Conclusion : complex dependencies and the dilemmas of modern welfare -- Ch. 10. Methodological reflections : clinical sensibility and the study of the social.
Summary
Which "forms of feeling" are facilitated and which discouraged within the cultures and structures of modern state welfare? This book illuminates the social and psychic dynamics of these new public cultures of welfare, locating them in relation to our understanding of borderline states of mind in individuals, organizations and society. Part of the Tavistock Clinic Series.
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9781849404648 (electronic bk.)
184940464X (electronic bk.)
1855759055
9781855759053
9781855759053 (pbk.)
1855759055 (pbk.)
9781855754201
9781849405362
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-232) and index.
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