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)

The War Inside is a groundbreaking history of how psychoanalysis influenced social policies relating to children in mid-twentieth-century Britain, demonstrating the far-reaching role of psychoanalytic ideas within social policy.

This book revises the common view of psychoanalysis as an elite discipline by taking it out of the clinic and into the war nursery, juvenile court, state welfare committee, and children's hospital.

The author 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.

This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of psychology, social policy, or the impact of war on society.