Therapeutic governance

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The term therapeutic governance has been used multiply in the social science literature, referring to two interrelated concepts. Therapeutic governance was first coined by Vannessa Pupavac[1] to describe the management of the populations' psychology, and its significance for security.[2][3]

Allison McKim used the term therapeutic governance to describe the governmentality of alcohol and drug treatment, whereby treatment works as a type of responsibilizing governance in producing and managing a rational, self-interested subject.[4]

References

  1. .
  2. ^ Pupavac, Vannessa (1 August 2005). Human Security and the rise of global therapeutic governance: Conflict, Security and Development. Vol. 5. No. 2. pp. 161–181.
  3. PMID 11780860
    .
  4. ^ McKim, Allison (June 2008). Getting Gut Level: Punishment, Gender and Therapeutic Governance. Vol. 22. No. 3 pp. 303-323.