The Management of Normality

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.