Dedication

pp iii-iv

Contents

pp v-v

List of tables

pp vi-vi

List of abbreviations

pp vii-vii

Notes on the author

pp viii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-xii

Introduction

pp 1-10

PART I - Sociohistorical contexts of policy and practice

pp 11-12

1 - Mental health services: from the asylum to neoliberal reform

pp 13-30

PART II - Lived experiences of neoliberal reform

pp 31-32

2 - The transition from relational to informational practice

pp 33-52

3 - Time, trust and relational practice

pp 53-81

4 - Risk and responsibilisation

pp 82-109

5 - Defining mental distress

pp 110-130

6 - Punitive managerialism under austerity

pp 131-158

7 - Shifting contours of managerial control

pp 159-172

PART III - Theorising knowledge and practice

pp 173-174

8 - Temporality and situational logics in the labour process

pp 175-194

9 - Biomedical residualism and its discontents

pp 195-211

Conclusion

pp 212-216

Appendix: methodology

pp 217-219

Notes

pp 220-226

References

pp 227-254

Index

pp 255-263