Table of Contents

Part 1 Conceptualizing the state: children and the civic state - a covenant model of welfare, John O'Neill; power and social action beyond the state, Roger Sibeon; therapy, organization and the state - a Blackian perspective, James Tucker; the institutionalization and deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill - lessons from Goffman, Philip Manning. Part 2 Counselling and therapy in institutional settings: acquiescence or consensus? consenting to therapeutic pedagogy, James L. Nolan, Jr.; the emergence of recovered memory as a social problem, Roger Neustadter; the concept of a "healthy person" - a sociological contribution toward a truly revolutionary psychotherapy, John A. Kovach; toward a critical social interactionism for counsellors, Sydney Carroll Thomas; the family under siege, James J. Chriss.