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