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| Contents |
The therapeutic culture. The emancipated self. The emotivist ethic. A new priestly class. The pathologization of human behavior. Victimization. The therapeutic ethos -- Legitimation of the state. Theoretical considerations. Older sources of legitimation. State expansion. Public disenchantment. The therapeutic alternative -- Civil case law. Personal injury law. The doctrinal history of emotional damage cases. Recovery of emotional damages in the new legal climate. Psychologists as expert witnesses. Litigation reform : therapeutic and utilitarian defenses -- Criminal justice. Drugs and crime. The historical antecedents to therapeutic justice. Courtroom therapy. Prison therapy -- Public education. The colonial period. Universal free education. Compulsory education. The progressive era. The cosmopolitan era. Therapeutic education. In a state of esteem -- Welfare policy. Congress and the well-being of children. Child labor laws and the Children's Bureau (1906-1912). The Sheppard-Towner Act (1921). Social Security and Emergency Wartime Aid to Children (1939-1945). Head Start and Operation Good Start (1965-1970). Head Start and Child Abuse Bills (1985-1990). Welfare reform : rejection or extension of therapeutic welfare? Excursus : the Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill hearings -- Political rhetoric. The therapeutic president. Political oratory. The Lincoln-Douglas debates. The Kennedy-Nixon debates. The Reagan-Mondale debates. The Clinton-Bush-Perot debates. The talk show debate. The therapeutic candidate. The triumph of therapeutic discourse -- The therapeutic state. Therapeutic utilitarianism. A postmodern state? An assessment of the continuing dialogue. Therapeutic coercion. Legitimation reconsidered. The problem of consent. The paradox of unintended consequences. Summary. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-387) and index. |
| LCCN | 97021234 |
| ISBN | 0814757901 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 081475791X (paper : acid-free paper) |
