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, Series Number 38)

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. Cover 1 Contents 9 Illustrations 10 Acknowledgments 12 Introduction: the war inside 15 1 The psychological study of anxiety: from World War I to World War II 38 From World War I to World War II: gradual change in attitudes toward fear 42 Attacks on all senses: medical experts on the problem of anxiety 46 Lay views on anxiety 56 2 Under fire: children and psychoanalysts in total war 62 Psychoanalysis before and during the war 63 Psychoanalysis and the evacuation process 72 Total war: Anna Freud’s Hampstead War Nurseries, London 80 The Bulldogs Bank project: an experiment in group upbringing of concentration-camp survivor children, 1945–1946 91 3 The Hitler inside: Klein and her patients 101 Patients’ reactions to the Nazi invasion of Austria, 1938 106 Notes on the Munich Crisis 110 Violence, aggression, anxiety, and the analysis of “Patient A” 113 Dick/Patient A 114 The Freud–Klein Controversies 116 Patient A during the war 118 Klein and the mid-century self 122 4 Psychoanalysts on the radio in war and peace: from collective to domestic citizenship 126 The BBC in war and peace 130 Winnicott and the BBC 133 Happy Children 134 Difficult Children 141 How’s the Baby 144 The “ordinary devoted mother” and her baby 148 5 Psychoanalyzing crime: the ISTD, 1931–1945 152 The establishment of the ISTD 157 Interwar psychoanalytic ideas on crime 171 “Delving into the secrets of the criminal’s soul”: the ISTD in the popular and professional press 174 Psychoanalysis at Q Camp: an experiment in democracy 180 The ISTD during World War II 183 6 Toward the therapeutic state: the ISTD during the postwar years, c. 1945–1960 192 Interdisciplinary team work, social reform, and active involvement: psychoanalysis at the postwar ISTD 196 The cases of Dorothy and Josephine 196 Is the criminal amoral? 201 “The enemy within”: fear of a crime wave after the war 203 The ISTD’s psychoanalysts in postwar state committees 207 ISTD’s psychoanalysts on capital punishment 208 The ISTD at the Wolfenden Committee: homosexuality as a mental disorder with origins in childhood 210 7 Hospitalized children, separation anxiety, and motherly love: psychoanalysis in postwar Britain 220 The development of attachment theory and research 225 Hospital direct observations by the Separation Research Unit 236 Psychoanalysis and public policy: the Platt Committee for the Welfare of Children in Hospital 246 Bowlbyisms in the popular and medical press and in private lives 251 Bibliography 261 Abbreviations: 261 Archival collections 261 Newspapers 262 Printed primary sources 264 Secondary sources 273 Films 289 Databases 289 Index 290 The Behavior Of Vanishing Cycles Is The Cornerstone For Understanding The Geometry And Topology Of Families Of Hypersurfaces, Usually Regarded As Singular Fibrations. This Self-contained Tract Proposes A Systematic Geometro-topological Approach To Vanishing Cycles, Especially Those Appearing In Non-proper Fibrations, Such As The Fibration Defined By A Polynomial Function. Topics Which Have Been The Object Of Active Research Especially Over The Past )5 Years, Such As Holomorphic And Mesomorphic Germs, Polynomial Functions, And Lefschetz Pencils On Quasi-projective Spaces, Are Here Shown In A New Light: Conceived As Aspects Of A Single Theory With Vanishing Cycles At Its Core. Throughout The Book The Author Presents The Current State Of The Art. Transparent Proofs Are Provided So That Non-specialists Can Use This Book As An Introduction, But All Researchers And Graduate Students Working In Differential And Algebraic Topology, Algebraic Geometry, And Singularity Theory Will Find This Book Of Great Use.--book Jacket. Preface -- Regularity Conditions At Infinity -- Detecting Atypical Values Via Singularities At Infinity -- Local And Global Fibrations -- Families Of Complex Polynomials -- Topology Of Family And Contact Structures -- Polar Invariants And Topology Of Affine Varieties -- Relative Polar Curves And Families Of Affine Hypersurfaces -- Monodromy Of Polynomials -- Topology Of Meromorphic Functions -- Slicing By Pencils Of Hypersurfaces -- Higher Zariski-lefschetz Theorems. Mihai Tibăr. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 236-248) And Index. The behaviour of vanishing cycles is the cornerstone for understanding the geometry and topology of families of hypersurfaces, usually regarded as singular fibrations. This self-contained tract proposes a systematic geometro-topological approach to vanishing cycles, especially those appearing in non-proper fibrations, such as the fibration defined by a polynomial function. Topics which have been the object of active research over the past 15 years, such as holomorphic germs, polynomial functions, and Lefschetz pencils on quasi-projective spaces, are here shown in a new light: conceived as aspects of a single theory with vanishing cycles at its core. Throughout the book the author presents the current state of the art. Transparent proofs are provided so that non-specialists can use this book as an introduction, but all researchers and graduate students working in differential and algebraic topology, algebraic geometry, and singularity theory will find this book of great use. 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. This title provides a study of 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 "In recent years the field of modern history has been enriched by the exploration of two parallel histories. These are the social and cultural history of armed conflict, and the impact of military events on social and cultural history"-- Provided by publisher Groundbreaking study of how British psychoanalysis shaped democracy, childhood and the family during and after the Second World War