Dedication

pp iii-iii

Contents

pp iv-vi

About the author

pp vii-vii

Acknowledgements

pp viii-x

Introduction

pp 1-28

Part One - The origins of social democracy’s family ideal: 1920s–1940s

pp 29-32

one - The re-imagining of adult–child relations between the wars

pp 33-62

two - Wartime influences: from the evacuation to the Children Act 1948

pp 63-84

Part Two - Characteristics of the ‘Golden Age’: 1940s–early 1970s

pp 85-88

three - Rebuilding the family: 1940s–1950s

pp 89-128

four - The ‘long sixties’: 1958–1974

pp 129-164

Part Three - Influences and examples from the USA

pp 165-168

five - Social science and American liberalism

pp 169-198

Part Four - Parental narcissism in neoliberal times: 1970s to the present

pp 199-200

six - Aspects of neoliberalism: political, economic and social realignment

pp 201-226

seven - Laying the foundations for parental narcissism

pp 227-258

eight - The New Labour era, and beyond: narcissism comes of age

pp 259-296

Part Five - Therapeutic reflections

pp 297-300

nine - Narcissism and the ‘politics of recognition’: concepts of the late-modern self

pp 301-322

Index

pp 323-326