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.
Contributors
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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Location Status History of MedicinePQW.AA9Open shelves
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ISBN
- 9780812253153
- 0812253159