The Management of Normality: Critical Essays in Health and Welfare.

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.