Which -forms of feeling- are facilitated and which discouraged within the cultures and structures of modern state welfare? This book illuminates the social and psychic dynamics of these new public cultures of welfare, locating them in relation to our understanding of borderline states of mind in individuals, organizations, and society. Drawing upon their idea of a psychoanalytic sensibility rooted in Wilfred Bion's notion of -learning from experience-, the authors aim to access the new structures of feeling now taking shape in commercialized and commodified health and social care systems....