This book presents a psychosocial examination of the changing relationships between users of services, professionals and managers in the post-war welfare state. It: develops practice-based perspectives on changing social relations of care;discusses the psychic dimensions of entitlement, risk, responsibility, compassion and dependency in the welfare system;develops a grid to link the interpersonal, institutional and sociopolitical dimensions of successive post-war welfare settlements;explores the potential contribution of psychoanalytic concepts to social policy and practice. . vbTab]...