The maternalists : psychoanalysis, motherhood, and the British welfare state / Shaul Bar-Haim.

  • Bar-Haim, Shaul
Date:
[2021]
  • Books

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Description

"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.

Publication/Creation

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]

Physical description

295 pages ; 24 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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    History of Medicine
    PQW.AA9
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ISBN

  • 9780812253153
  • 0812253159