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The War Inside: Psychoanalysis, Total War, and the Making of the Democratic Self in Postwar Britain - Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
Shapira, Michal (Tel-Aviv University)
The War Inside: Psychoanalysis, Total War, and the Making of the Democratic Self in Postwar Britain - Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
Shapira, Michal (Tel-Aviv University)
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.
294 pages, 14 b/w illus.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | May 14, 2015 |
ISBN13 | 9781107519237 |
Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
Genre | Cultural Region > British Isles |
Pages | 294 |
Dimensions | 227 × 152 × 21 mm · 434 g |
Language | English |
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