Jessica Pykett is a social and political geographer at the University of Birmingham, UK. Rhys Jones is Professor of Human Geography at Aberystwyth University, UK.Mark Whitehead is Professor of Human Geography at Aberystwyth University, UK.

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• ContentsAcknowledgement Notes on contributorsIntroduction: psychological governance and public policy. Jessica Pykett, Rhys Jones and Mark Whitehead The politics of silent citizenship: psychological government and the ‘facts’ of happinessWilliam Davies Happiness as resource and resilience: an emotion for neoliberal timesSam Binkley Therapeutic governance of psycho-emotionally vulnerable citizens: new subjectivities, new experts and new dangersKathryn Ecclestone Psychology as practical biopoliticsThe Midlands Psychology Group: John Cromby, Bob Diamond, Paul Kelly, Paul Moloney, Penny Priest and Jan Soffe-Caswell ‘What about the children?’ Re-engineering citizens of the futureVal Gillies and Rosalind Edwards The imperative to shape young brains: mindfulness as a neuroeducational interventionAlberto Sánchez-Allred and Suparna Choudhury Behavioural science, randomized evaluations and the transformation of public policy: the case of the UK governmentPeter JohnIndex

Jessica Pykett is a social and political geographer at the University of Birmingham, UK. Rhys Jones is Professor of Human Geography at Aberystwyth University, UK.Mark Whitehead is Professor of Human Geography at Aberystwyth University, UK.

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• ContentsAcknowledgement Notes on contributorsIntroduction: psychological governance and public policy. Jessica Pykett, Rhys Jones and Mark Whitehead The politics of silent citizenship: psychological government and the ‘facts’ of happinessWilliam Davies Happiness as resource and resilience: an emotion for neoliberal timesSam Binkley Therapeutic governance of psycho-emotionally vulnerable citizens: new subjectivities, new experts and new dangersKathryn Ecclestone Psychology as practical biopoliticsThe Midlands Psychology Group: John Cromby, Bob Diamond, Paul Kelly, Paul Moloney, Penny Priest and Jan Soffe-Caswell ‘What about the children?’ Re-engineering citizens of the futureVal Gillies and Rosalind Edwards The imperative to shape young brains: mindfulness as a neuroeducational interventionAlberto Sánchez-Allred and Suparna Choudhury Behavioural science, randomized evaluations and the transformation of public policy: the case of the UK governmentPeter JohnIndex

Jessica Pykett is a social and political geographer at the University of Birmingham, UK. Rhys Jones is Professor of Human Geography at Aberystwyth University, UK.Mark Whitehead is Professor of Human Geography at Aberystwyth University, UK.

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• ContentsAcknowledgement Notes on contributorsIntroduction: psychological governance and public policy. Jessica Pykett, Rhys Jones and Mark Whitehead The politics of silent citizenship: psychological government and the ‘facts’ of happinessWilliam Davies Happiness as resource and resilience: an emotion for neoliberal timesSam Binkley Therapeutic governance of psycho-emotionally vulnerable citizens: new subjectivities, new experts and new dangersKathryn Ecclestone Psychology as practical biopoliticsThe Midlands Psychology Group: John Cromby, Bob Diamond, Paul Kelly, Paul Moloney, Penny Priest and Jan Soffe-Caswell ‘What about the children?’ Re-engineering citizens of the futureVal Gillies and Rosalind Edwards The imperative to shape young brains: mindfulness as a neuroeducational interventionAlberto Sánchez-Allred and Suparna Choudhury Behavioural science, randomized evaluations and the transformation of public policy: the case of the UK governmentPeter JohnIndex