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Author Bar-Haim, Shaul, author.

Title The maternalists psychoanalysis, motherhood, and the British welfare state Shaul Bar-Haim
Published Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (295 pages)
Series Intellectual history of the modern age
Intellectual history of the modern age.
Contents The "Sphincter- morality" and beyond : the concept of childhood in interwar psychoanalysis -- How children think : Susan Isaacs and "primitive" thinking -- Malinowski, Róheim, and the maternal shift in British psychoanalysis and anthropology -- Imagining the "maternal" past : Ian Suttie and the critique of Oedipal culture -- What about father? Civic- republican maternalism and the welfare state -- "The drug 'doctor' " : the Balint movement and psychosocial medicine in postwar Britain
Summary "This book discusses the role of motherhood in psychoanalysis, and how this contributed to the British welfare state in the first half of the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis British psychoanalytic society
History of welfare policy
Maternalistic thinking
Mother-centered culture
Politics of motherhood
Post WWI Great Britain
Psychoanalysis and the public sphere
Psychoanalysis in Britain
Raymond Williams structure of feeling
Sandor Ferenczi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Psychoanalysis -- History -- 20th century
Motherhood -- Psychological aspects -- History -- 20th century
Psychoanalysis -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Motherhood -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Welfare state -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century.
Motherhood -- Political aspects
Motherhood -- Psychological aspects
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis -- Social aspects
Welfare state
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0812299647
9780812299649