Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

1 The Therapeutic Culture

The Emancipated Self

The Emotivist Ethic

A New Priestly Class

The Pathologization of Human Behavior

Victimization

The Therapeutic Ethos

2 Legitimation of the State

Theoretical Considerations

Older Sources of Legitimation

State Expansion

Public Disenchantment

The Therapeutic Alternative

3 Civil Case Law

Personal Injury Law

The Doctrinal History of Emotional Damage Cases

Recovery of Emotional Damages in the New Legal Climate

Psychologists as Expert Witnesses

Litigation Reform: Therapeutic and Utilitarian Defenses

4 Criminal Justice

Drugs and Crime

The Historical Antecedents to Therapeutic Justice

Courtroom Therapy

Prison Therapy

5 Public Education

The Colonial Period

Universal Free Education

Compulsory Education

The Progressive Era

The Cosmopolitan Era

Therapeutic Education

School Counselors

In a State of Esteem

6 Welfare Policy

Congress and the Well-Being of Children

Child Labor Laws and the Children's Bureau (1906–1912)

The Sheppard-Towner Act (1921)

Social Security and Emergency Wartime Aid to Children (1939–1945)

Head Start and Operation Good Start (1965–1970)

Head Start and Child Abuse Bills (1985–1990)

Welfare Reform: Rejection or Extension of Therapeutic Welfare?

Excursus: The Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill Hearings

7 Political Rhetoric

The Therapeutic President

Political Oratory

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

The Kennedy-Nixon Debates

The Reagan-Mondale Debates

The Clinton-Bush-Perot Debates

The Talk Show Debate

The Therapeutic Candidate

The Triumph of Therapeutic Discourse

Summary

8 The Therapeutic State

Therapeutic Utilitarianism

A Postmodern State?

An Assessment of the Continuing Dialogue

Therapeutic Coercion

Legitimation Reconsidered

The Problem of Consent

The Paradox of Unintended Consequences

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Appendix 3

Appendix 4

Appendix 5

Notes

Selected References

Index