Gillian Swanson's Outputs (3)

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.

Altruism, love and the "democratic factor" in social psychiatry (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.