Series Editor’s Preface -- Introduction: the psychoanalytic study of welfare -- Borderline states of mind and society -- The state of mind we’re in: sincerity, anxiety, and the audit society -- The psychic geography of racism: the state, the clinician, and hatred of the stranger -- The broken link: polemic and pain in mental health work -- Surface tensions: emotion, conflict, and the social containment of dangerous knowledge -- Surface and depth in the Victoria Climbie Inquiry Report: exploring emotionally intelligent policy -- The vanishing organization: organizational containment in a networked world -- Conclusion: complex dependencies and the dilemmas of modern welfare -- Methodological reflections: clinical sensibility and the study of the social