Therapeutic Governance: the Politics of Psychosocial Intervention and Trauma Risk Management
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This paper critically analyses the significance of psychosocial intervention as a new form of international therapeutic governance based on social risk management. Firstly the paper examines the international psychosocial model and its origins in an Anglo-American therapeutic ethos. Secondly the paper argues that psychosocial approaches jeopardise local coping strategies. Thirdly the paper highlights the potential political, social and psychological consequences of the pathologisation of war-affected societies. Finally the paper concludes that therapeutic governance represents the reduction of politics to administration.
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