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The War Inside - Michal Shapira

The War Inside

Psychoanalysis, Total War, and the Making of the Democratic Self in Postwar Britain

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Buch | Softcover
294 Seiten
2015
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-51923-7 (ISBN)
CHF 54,10 inkl. MwSt
This groundbreaking study reveals how British psychoanalysis shaped democracy, childhood and the family during and after the Second World War. It follows the work of psychoanalysts in war nurseries, juvenile courts, state committees and children's hospitals, showing how experts informed broad social questions in an age of mass violence.
The War Inside is a groundbreaking history of the contribution of British psychoanalysis to the making of social democracy, childhood, and the family during World War II and the postwar reconstruction. Psychoanalysts informed understandings not only of individuals, but also of broader political questions. By asserting a link between a real 'war outside' and an emotional 'war inside', psychoanalysts contributed to an increased state responsibility for citizens' mental health. They made understanding children and the mother-child relationship key to the successful creation of a democratic citizenry. Using rich archival sources, the book revises the common view of psychoanalysis as an elite discipline by taking it out of the clinic and into the war nursery, the juvenile court, the state welfare committee, and the children's hospital. It traces the work of the second generation of psychoanalysts after Freud in response to total war and explores its broad postwar effects on British society.

Michal Shapira is Assistant Professor of History and Gender Studies at Tel Aviv University. Her research deals with the domestic, sociocultural, crossnational and imperial legacies of World War II in Britain and beyond.

Introduction: the war inside; 1. The psychological study of anxiety: from World War I to World War II; 2. Under fire: children and psychoanalysts in total war; 3. The Hitler inside: Klein and her patients; 4. Psychoanalysts on the radio in war and peace: from collective to domestic citizenship; 5. Psychoanalyzing crime: the Institute for the Study and Treatment of Delinquency (ISTD), 1931–45; 6. Towards the therapeutic state: the ISTD during the postwar years, c.1945–60; 7. Hospitalized children, separation anxiety, and motherly love: psychoanalysis in postwar Britain; Bibliography.

Reihe/Serie Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
Zusatzinfo 14 Plates, black and white
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 230 mm
Gewicht 400 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Zeitgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Sozialgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
ISBN-10 1-107-51923-3 / 1107519233
ISBN-13 978-1-107-51923-7 / 9781107519237
Zustand Neuware
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