Citation

Pupavac V. Disasters 2001; 25(4): 358-372.

Affiliation

School of Politics, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, University of Nottingham. vanessa.pupavac@nottingham.ac.uk

Copyright

(Copyright © 2001, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

11780860

Abstract

This paper critically analyses the significance of psycho-social intervention as a new form of international therapeutic governance based on social risk management. First, the paper examines the international psycho-social model and its origins in an Anglo-American therapeutic ethos. Second, the paper argues that psycho-social approaches jeopardise local coping strategies. Third, the paper highlights the potential political, social and psychological consequences of the pathologisation of war-affected societies. Finally the paper concludes that therapeutic governance represents the reduction of politics to administration.

Language: en