Psycho politics, neoliberal governmentality and austerity
Psycho politics, neoliberal governmentality and austerity
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心理政治、新自由主义治理和紧缩政策
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10.1080/03060497.2016.1192905
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2016
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P. Thomas
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近25年来，在历届政府的领导下，福利领取者一直是新自由主义经济政策的焦点，但2008年的银行危机使政府重新尝试削减福利支出。这加深了英国社会的分裂和不平等，因为残疾人和有精神健康问题的人无法工作，在一个日益专制的政权的强迫下，寻找低薪工作或基于零时工合同的不合适的工作。这些发展的一个结果是，人们对彼得·塞奇威克（Peter Sedgwick）的思想重新产生了兴趣。塞奇威克的著作《心理政治学》（Psycho Politics）提出了马克思主义对反精神病学（包括福柯的早期作品）的批判，以及新自由主义对精神健康问题患者的影响。本文概述了塞奇威克的主要论点，并与福柯后来的作品一起，对新自由主义的基本原则提出了质疑。特别重要的是心理学和心理治疗的政府职能从…
Benefit claimants have been at the focal point of neoliberal economic policy under successive governments for nearly twenty-five years, but the banking crisis of 2008 reinvigorated government attempts to cut benefit spending. This has deepened divisions and inequalities in British society, as disabled people and those with mental health problems unable to work, are coerced by an increasingly authoritarian regime to seek low-paid work or unsuitable jobs based in zero hours contracts. One consequence of these developments is a resurgence of interest in the ideas of Peter Sedgwick, whose book Psycho Politics, set out a Marxist critique of antipsychiatry (including Foucault's early work) and the consequences of neoliberalism for people with mental health problems.This paper outlines Sedgwick's main arguments, and together with Foucault's later work, questions the underlying principles of neoliberalism. Of particular significance is a shift in the governmental function of psychology and psychotherapy from the ...