Inside an Emotional Health Program: A Field Study of Workplace Assistance for Troubled Employees

Central to the author's analysis of his experiences is the controversial issue of whether or not treating employee problems in a clinical setting—medicalizing them—is a form of social control that substitutes for political change in the workplace.

Inside an Emotional Health Program considers questions essential to the existence of any employee counseling program: Who uses the program? For what kinds of problems? How do program clients decide to seek help? Are their problems resolved? How? Wh...