The Maternalists explores how mid-twentieth-century British psychoanalysis created a new mother-centered culture, which after 1945 would shape dramatically both welfare ideology and the British welfare state itself.

Introduction
Chapter 1. The "Sphincter-Morality" and Beyond: The Concept of Childhood in Interwar Psychoanalysis
Chapter 2. How Children Think: Susan Isaacs on "Primitive" Thinking
Chapter 3. Malinowski, Róheim, and the Maternal Shift in British Psychoanalysis and Anthropology
Chapter 4. Imagining the "Maternal" Past: Ian Suttie's Critique of Oedipal Culture
Chapter 5. What About Father? Civic-Republican Maternalism and the Welfare State
Chapter 6. "The Drug 'Doctor'": The Balint Movement and Psychosocial Medicine in Postwar Britain
Conclusion
Note
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments