Foucault's care of the self: A case from mental health work

Organization Studies

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1485-1504

  Randall, Julian ^a   Munro, Iain ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Care of the self; Foucault; Identity; Mental health; Normalization; Professionalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649403791     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840610380809     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Atkinson, Paul 1995 Medical talk and medical work. London: Sage.
2. Boje, David 1995 'Stories of the storytelling organization: A postmodern analysis of Disney as Tamara-Land'. Academy of Management Journal 38/4: 997-1035.
3. Burrell, Gibson 1988 'Modernism, postmodernism and organizational analysis: The contribution of Michel Foucault'. Organization Studies 9/2: 221-235.
4. Canguilhem, Georges 1989 The normal and the pathological. New York: Zone Books.
5. Covaleski, Mark, Mark Dirsmith, James Heian and Sajay Samuel 1998 'The calculated and the avowed: Techniques of discipline and struggles over identity in big six public accounting firms'. Administrative Science Quarterly 43: 293-327.
6. Czarniawska, Barbara 1997 Narrating the organization. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
7. Dean, Mitchell 1999 Governmentality: Power and rule in modern society. London: Sage.
8. Deleuze, Gilles 1988 Foucault. London: Athlone.
9. Deleuze, Gilles 1995 Negotiations. New York: Columbia University Press.
10. Foucault, Michel 1971 Madness of civilization. London: Routledge.
11. Foucault, Michel 1977 Discipline and punish: The birth of the prison. London: Penguin.
12. Foucault, Michel 1981 The history of sexuality, vol. 1. London: Penguin.
13. Foucault, Michel 1982 'The subject and power' in Michel Foucault: Beyond structuralism and hermeneutics. H.L. Dreyfus and P. Rabinow (eds), 208-226. Brighton: Harvester Press.
14. Foucault, Michel 1985 The uses of pleasure. London: Penguin.
15. Foucault, Michel 1986a The care of the self. London: Penguin.
16. Foucault, Michel 1986b Dream and existence: Michel Foucault and Ludwig Bingswanger. Seattle: Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry.
17. Foucault, Michel 1997a 'Technologies of the self' in Ethics: Essential works, vol. 1. P. Rabinow (ed.), 223-252. London: Penguin.
18. Foucault, Michel 1997b 'What is Enlightenment?' in Ethics: Essential works, vol. 1. P. Rabinow (ed.), 303-320. London: Penguin.
19. Foucault, Michel 1997c 'The ethics of the concern for self as a practice of freedom' in Ethics: Essential works, vol. 1. P. Rabinow (ed.), 281-302. London: Penguin.
20. Foucault, Michel 2003a Abnormal: Lectures at the CollÃ̈ge de France 1974-75. London: Penguin.
21. Foucault, Michel 2003b Society must be defended: Lectures at the CollÃ̈ge de France 1975-76. London: Penguin.
22. Foucault, Michel 2007 Security, territory, population: Lectures at the CollÃ̈ge de France 1977-78. London: Penguin.
23. Fox, N., K. Ward and A. O'Rourke 2005 'The expert patient: empowerment or medical dominance? The case of weight loss, pharmaceutical drugs and the internet'. Social Science and Medicine 60/6: 1299-1309.
24. Geertz, Clifford 1973 The interpretation of cultures. New York: Basic Books.
25. Goffman, Erving 1961 Asylums: Essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates. New York: Anchor.
26. Goffman, Erving 1963 Stigma: Notes on the management of spoiled identity. London: Penguin.
27. Hadot, Pierre 1995 Philosophy as a way of life: Spiritual exercises from Socrates to Foucault. Oxford: Blackwell.
28. Halford, Susan, and Pauline Leonard 2007 'Place, space and time: Contextualizing workplace subjectivities'. Organization Studies 27/5: 657-676.
29. Hardy, Cynthia, C. Palmer, and Nelson Phillips 2000 'Discourse as a strategic resource'. Human Relations 53/9: 1227-1248.
30. Hodgson, Damian 2005 'Putting on a professional performance'. Organization Studies 12/1: 51-68.
31. Horton, Richard 2001 'The real lessons from Harold Frederick Shipman'. The Lancet 357: 82-83.
32. Hyde, Paula, and Huw Davis 2004 'Service design, culture and performance: Collusion and co-production in health care'. Human Relations 57/11: 1407-1426.
33. Jones, Colin, and Roy Porter 1994 Reassessing Foucault: Power, medicine and the body. London: Routledge.
34. Knights, David 2002 'Writing organizational analysis into Foucault'. Organization 9/4: 575-593.
35. Louis, Meryl Reis 1980a 'Surprise and sensemaking: What newcomers experience in entering unfamiliar organizational settings'. Administrative Science Quarterly 25/2: 226-251.
36. Louis, Meryl Reis 1980b 'Career transitions: Varieties and commonalities'. Academy of Management Review 5/3: 329-340.
37. Lupton, Deborah 2003 Medicine as culture. London: Sage.
38. McGee, Mikki 2005 Self Help Inc. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
39. McKinlay, Alan 2002 'Dead selves: The birth of the modern career'. Organization 9/4: 595-614.
40. Miller, James 1993 The passion of Michel Foucault. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
41. Potter, Jonathon 1996 Representing reality: Discourse, rhetoric and social construction. London: Sage.
42. Roffe, David, and Christine Roffe 1995 'Madness and care in the community: A medieval perspective'. British Medical Journal 311: 1708-1712.
43. Rose, Nikolas 1990 Governing the soul: The shaping of the private self. London: Routledge.
44. Rose, Nikolas 1997 'Assembling the modern self' in Rewriting the self. Roy Porter (ed.), 224-248. London: Routledge.
45. Starkey, Ken, and Armand Hatchuel 2002 'The long detour: Foucault's history of desire and pleasure'. Organization 9/4: 641-656.
46. Townley, Barbara 1994 Reframing human resource management: Power, ethics and the subject at work. London: Sage.
47. Treasure, Tom 1998 'Lessons from the Bristol case'. British Medical Journal 316: 1685-1686.
48. Van Dijk, Tuen 1997 'Discourse as interaction in society' in Discourse as structure and process, vol. 2. Tuen Van Dijk (ed.), 1-37. London: Sage.
49. Veyne, Paul 1997 'The final Foucault and his ethics' in Foucault and his interlocutors. A. I. Davidson (ed.), 225-233. London: University of Chicago Press.
50. Weick, Karl 1995 Sensemaking in organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
51. Wilson, Patricia 2001 'A policy analysis of the expert patient in the United Kingdom: Self care as an expression of pastoral power'. Health and Social Care in the Community 9/3: 134-142.