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Borderline Welfare: Feeling and Fear of Feeling in Modern Welfare

Author(s) : Andrew Cooper, Author(s) : Julian Lousada

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'This is an important and, in many respects, daring book. It addresses itself to some of the most urgent and challenging areas of contemporary social policy and professional identity. It bases its position and findings in the experience of working intimately, as psychoanalytic psychotherapists as well as social workers, teachers and academics, with the basic reality of people’s lives, both social and psychological. [...] Perhaps central to these is what the authors think of as the "state of mind" of society as reflected in its provision of care, variously for its citizens and for those experienced as "outsiders". It describes the hidden costs of the "service delivery" mentality and the sources of some of the social ills which are currently afflicting society. The brush strokes are both broad and fine and in so being introduce a new level of insight into what often seem like the overwhelmingly difficult problems of contemporary social existence.'
- Margot Waddell, from Series Editor’s Preface