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Psychoanalysis and the family in twentieth-century France
Françoise Dolto and her legacy
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English
Published/Copyright:
2022
About this book
In the last quarter of the twentieth century, if French people had a parenting problem or dilemma there was one person they consulted above all: Françoise Dolto (1908–88). But who was Dolto? How did she achieve a position of such influence? What ideas did she communicate to the French public? This book connects the story of Dolto’s rise to two broader histories: the dramatic growth of psychoanalysis in postwar France and the long-running debate over the family and the proper role of women in society. It shows that Dolto’s continued reputation in France as a liberal and enlightened educational thinker is at best only partially deserved and that conservative and anti-feminist ideas often underpinned her prominent public interventions. While Dolto retains the status of a national treasure, her career has had far-reaching and sometimes harmful repercussions for French society, particularly in the treatment of autism.
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Richard Bates is a Teaching Associate in History at the University of Nottingham
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‘Richard Bates’s cultural history of the life and work of Françoise Dolto establishes her rightful place at the centre of the psychoanalytic revolution in twentieth-century France, stressing her significant influence on the broader popularity of psychoanalysis and the manner that French parents navigated social transformations after the Second World War. A must-read to understand the intersection of gender, family and disability in French psychoanalysis.’
Jonathyne Briggs, Professor of History, Indiana University Northwest
'Bates provides a valuable corrective to Dolto’s autobiographical works, which downplay her interwar conservative origins, and which Bates argues historians have adopted too uncritically... In all, though, Psychoanalysis… is an indispensable contribution to this burgeoning historiography.'
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Jonathyne Briggs, Professor of History, Indiana University Northwest
'Bates provides a valuable corrective to Dolto’s autobiographical works, which downplay her interwar conservative origins, and which Bates argues historians have adopted too uncritically... In all, though, Psychoanalysis… is an indispensable contribution to this burgeoning historiography.'
Social History of Medicine
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Acknowledgements
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Abbreviations
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Introduction
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1 Family neuroses
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2 Dutiful daughters
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3 Humanism, holism and guilt
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4 Family politics
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5 Autism, antipsychiatry and the pathogenic family
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6 Radio star
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Bibliography
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Index
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eBook published on:
September 6, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9781526159632
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eBook ISBN:
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Keywords for this book
Françoise Dolto; Jacques Lacan; René Laforgue; psychoanalysis; child psychology; gender; autism; sex education; radio communication; la Maison Verte
Audience(s) for this book
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
