The Rise of the Therapeutic State

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The Rise of the Therapeutic State is written by Andrew Joseph Polsky and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0691078785 (ISBN 10) and 9780691078786 (ISBN 13).

Assuming that marginal citizens cannot govern their own lives, proponents of the therapeutic state urge casework intervention to reshape the attitudes and behaviors of those who live outside the social mainstream. Thus the victims of poverty, delinquency, family violence, and other problems are to be normalized. But normalize, to Andrew Polsky, is a term that jars the ear, as well it should when we consider what this effort is all about. Here he investigates the broad network of public agencies that adopt the casework approach.