Psychology discourse practice: From regulation to resistance
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Abstract
Part 1 Instituting agencies: I have depression don't I? - discourses of help and self-help books pathologizing children - psychology in education and acts of government feminist psychotherapy and its discontents. Part 2 Practising at the limits of representation: the present absent/pathologized presence of black women in mental health services special women, special places - women and high security constructing a narrative - moral discourse and young people's experiences of exclusion. Part 3 Dislocating institutional boundaries: expert advice to mothers - conceptualizing mothers' resistance to advice about childrearing come to the carnival - women's humour as transgression and reistance the rhetorics of Gender Identity Clinics - transsexual and other boundary objects.