Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-224) and index.
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Psychology discourse practice : from regulation to resistance -- 'I have depression, don't I?' : discourses of help and self-help books -- Pathologizing children : psychology in education and acts of government -- Feminist therapy and its discontents -- The present absence/pathologized presence of black women in mental health services -- Special women, special places: women and high security mental hospitals -- Constructing a narrative: moral discourse and young people's experiences of exclusion -- Whose expertize? Conceptualizing resistance to advice about childbearing -- Come to carnival: women's humour as transgression and resistance -- The rhetorics of gender identity clinics : transsexuals and other boundary objects.