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'The love of a pitiable dog': Gregariousness, reciprocity and altruism in early twentieth-century British social psychology (2015)
Book Chapter

The interwar period is commonly figured as a period of cultural pessimism and uncertainty, as the traumatic wound to hope brought about by of the Great War was translated into an intellectual climate characterized by Richard Overy as a ‘morbid age’.... Read More about 'The love of a pitiable dog': Gregariousness, reciprocity and altruism in early twentieth-century British social psychology.

The archive and the detail (2009)
Journal Article

A discussion of historical methodology and historical consciousness, cultural change, social relations, human singularity and imaginative life, cultural difference, social feeling and cultural attachment.

'How can civilization be saved?': Psychoanalysis in the anticipation of World War Two in Britain (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Serenity, self-regard and the genetic sequence: Social psychiatry and preventive eugenics in Britain, 1930s-1950s (2006)
Journal Article

The completion of this peer reviewed journal article was supported by AHRC Research Leave funding and constitutes the first study to situate C. P. Blacker's realignment of the Eugenics Society in the 1940s and 1950s in terms of the convergence of psy... Read More about Serenity, self-regard and the genetic sequence: Social psychiatry and preventive eugenics in Britain, 1930s-1950s.