Psychological life as enterprise: Social practice and the government of neo-liberal interiority

History of the Human Sciences

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 83-102

  Binkley, Sam ^a  

^a EMERSON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

coaching; de subjectification; governmentality; Michel Foucault; neo liberalism; psy function; psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960020931     PISSN: 09526951     EISSN: 1461720X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0952695111412877     Document Type: Article

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