Seeing Like a DSM Therapeutic Governance, Welfare, and Social Workers

• Published in: Sociological forum (Randolph, N.J.) Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 181 - 200
• Main Author: Shoshana, Avihu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wayne Wiley 01.03.2019; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Anger; Classification; Emotions; Everyday life; Femininity; gender deviance; Governance; Hegemony; Internalization; ORIGINAL ARTICLES; Prisoners; Psychiatry; psychological discourse; Shame; Social workers; Subaltern identities; Subjectivity; Surveillance; therapeutic governance; Welfare; Wives

This article suggests considering the processes affiliated with therapeutic governance through the relationships between social workers and prisoners’ wives. Research findings reveal unique practices of therapeutic governance that in turn maintain the state gazes that help regulate welfare individua...