Shaul Bar-Haim is a cultural historian of the human sciences, specializing in the history of psychoanalysis, trauma theory, and critical emotions studies. His first book, The Maternalists: Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State, explores how psychoanalysis provided a new language for welfarist ideologies in mid-twentieth-century Britain. Focusing on psychoanalytically oriented doctors, anthropologists, and policy makers, the book shows how these figures reimagined the state as a maternal presence to its citizens, with far-reaching implications for ideas of domesticity, gender, and citizenship in the postwar era. The Maternalists was reviewed in journals such as the London Review of Books, History of the Human Sciences, and the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences.

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