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'How can civilization be saved?': Psychoanalysis in the anticipation of World War Two in Britain (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Swanson, G. (2009, July). 'How can civilization be saved?': Psychoanalysis in the anticipation of World War Two in Britain. Paper presented at Structures of Violence and Conflict: 2nd Conference of the International Society for Cultural History, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

This paper considers the ways that psychoanalysis was understood to provide a distinctive insight in to the ‘problems of civilization’ and a means of understanding the psychic dynamics of social groups in the anticipation of war in Britain in the 193... Read More about 'How can civilization be saved?': Psychoanalysis in the anticipation of World War Two in Britain.

Altruism, love and the "democratic factor" in social psychiatry (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Swanson, G. (2009, May). Altruism, love and the "democratic factor" in social psychiatry. Paper presented at After the War: Post-War Structures of Feeling, Institute of English Studies, University of London

An examination of those models of character defined by effective sentiment development which became the foundation of a social psychiatry directed to the solution of social problems as part of a programme of post-war reconstruction, an excavation of... Read More about Altruism, love and the "democratic factor" in social psychiatry.

Disciplinary innovation and 'cultural experience' (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Swanson, G. (2008, August). Disciplinary innovation and 'cultural experience'. Paper presented at Orientations: The Inaugural Conference of the International Society for Cultural History, Ghent University

An argument for an approach to cultural history based on attention to the detail, disciplinary knowledge and innovation to be addressed through shifts in conceptual frameworks, and the charting of their influence on social management via new models o... Read More about Disciplinary innovation and 'cultural experience'.