Managed Lives: Psychoanalysis inner security and the social order: Psychoanalysis and the Administrative Task

An inherent tension exists in the history of psychoanalysis and its applications between the concepts of freedom and security. In Managed Lives, this tension is explored from the point of view of therapeutic experience. Set against the background of Freud’s contested legacy, the book examines ways of managing oneself under psychiatric supervision, in the analytic encounter and in the emotional and moral contexts of everyday life. Through a series of detailed case studies Steven Groarke addresses therapeutic experience as a formation of managed society, examining the work of Donald Winnicott on types of management, Colin Murray Parkes on bereavement and Anthony Giddens on the sociological appropriation of psychoanalysis. Managed Lives forms an original critical analysis of contemporary managerial culture and its self-reflexive project as well as presenting the idea of management as a source of inner security and vital morality. Presented in three parts, the book addresses: The Criterion of Maturity The Reflexive Norm The Managed Society Together, the book’s arguments provide a fresh and challenging perspective on post-Freudian uses of faith, the risks of critical rationality and the difficulties of living an ethical life under modern conditions. Managed Lives is ideal for academics and research students working on psychoanalytic studies, social theory and mental health studies as well as students and trainees taking courses in psychotherapy, counselling, social work and health and social care.Additional ISBNs9780415692205, 9781315880150Managed Lives: Psychoanalysis, inner security and the social order: Psychoanalysis and the Administrative Task 1st Edition is written by Steven Groarke and published by Routledge. ISBNs for Managed Lives: Psychoanalysis, inner security and the social order are 9781134745456, 1134745451 and the print ISBNs are 9780415692199, 0415692199. Additional ISBNs include 9780415692205, 9781315880150.