The management of normality : critical essays in health and welfare

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The management of normality : critical essays in health and welfare

Abram de Swaan

Routledge, 1990

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In this series of brilliant case studies, Abram de Swann shows how normality is constructed and imposed on society. He explores the management of normality in a range of settings from the cancer ward to intimate relationships. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of sociology and psychology; health professionals.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction: PART ONE THE MEDICAL REGIME
  • 1. DISEASE AND DEPENDENCY: 2. AFFECT MANAGEMENT IN A CANCER WARD
  • The hospital regime as a form of affect management
  • Defence strategies in the cancer ward
  • Exceptional states: 3. EXPANSION AND LIMITATION OF THE MEDICAL REGIME
  • The medicalization of daily life
  • Early warnings of health risks
  • Lenghier lives, lengthier illnesses
  • Medical advice
  • The expansion of the medical regime: PART TWO THE PSYCHOTHERAPY TRADE: 4. ON THE SOCIOGENESIS OF THE PSYCHOANALYTIC SITUATION
  • Origins of office practice
  • The early psychoanalytic setting
  • The evolution of the psychoanalytic situation
  • Payment and the problem of reputation
  • The management of time
  • The social isolation of the psychoanalytic encounter
  • The two ground rules
  • Conclusion
  • References: 5. FROM TROUBLES TO PROBLEMS
  • The incomplete professionalization of psychotherapy
  • The partial protoprofessionalization of lay circles: 6. THE INITIAL INTERVIEW AS A TASK
  • The inscrutability of the task
  • The structure of the initial interview and that of the professional hierarchy
  • The initial interview as a conversational genre
  • Fragmentary presentation of a negative autobiography
  • Accountability
  • The teller and the told
  • Comprehensibility
  • Acceptability
  • Conclusions: PART THREE EMOTIONS IN THEIR SOCIAL MATRIX: 7. THE POLITICS OF AGORAPHOBIA
  • Nineteenth-century limitations on the movement of women in public
  • From management by command to management by negotiation
  • A postscript on civilisation theory and on the theoretical critique of society: 8. JEALOUSY AS A CLASS PHENOMENON: Jealous group relations
  • Relations between the small bourgeoisie and the working class: 9. INTIMATE RELATIONS AND DOMESTIC ARRANGEMENTS: 10. THE SURVIVORS' SYNDROME: Notes: Index.

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