A contextualized treatment of the current configuration of self, some of the pathologies that plague it, and the technologies that attempt to heal it.  

The intellectual movement known as the interpretative turn is used to develop an understanding of relational psychoanalysis as a way of preparing patients and practitioners to resist the dominant way of being and political structures of the current era. 

 The practices—and effects—of managed care regulations on the self are interpreted by studying how the patient, the therapist, and the therapeutic relationship come to light in managed care settings.