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The Maternalists: Psychoanalysis, Motherhood and the British Welfare State
by Shaul Bar-Haim.
Pennsylvania, 352 pp., £60, August 2021,978 0 8122 5315 3 Show More
by Shaul Bar-Haim.
Pennsylvania, 352 pp., £60, August 2021,
“... same time a turn from Freud to Klein, and its impact on postwar welfare policy, is the subject of Shaul Bar-Haim’s new book. He argues that progressive ‘maternalistic’ thinkers from the interwar period involved in education, anthropology and the ‘psy’ professions connected new psychoanalytic ideas of motherhood to an ideal of the state as a ... ”
