Psychoanalysis and the Family in Twentieth-Century France: Françoise Dolto and Her Legacy

by Richard Bates

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: Fran oise 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526159627
• ISBN13: 9781526159625
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"