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Harry Hendrick shows how broader social changes, including neoliberalism, feminism, the collapse of the socialdemocratic ideal, and the 'new behaviourism', have led to the rise of the anxious and narcissistic parent, In this provocative history of parenting.
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NARCISSISTIC PARENTING IN AN INSECURE WORLD
Some methodological considerations
Part One. The origins of social democracy’s family ideal: 1920s–1940s
1. The re-imagining of adult–child relations between the wars
The paradox of the inter-war years: ‘we danced all night’ through what was a ‘morbid age’
Inter-war science: children’s bodies and minds and child rearing
Heroes of behaviourism: F. Truby King and J. B. Watson
Susan Isaacs and the rejection of behaviourism
The child guidance movement
The influence of progressive education
2. Wartime influences: from the evacuation to the Children Act 1948
The ‘problem family’ and social democracy
Part Two. Characteristics of the ‘Golden Age’: 1940s–early 1970s
3. Rebuilding the family: 1940s–1950s
‘To make men and women better than they are’ (Herbert Morrison)
John Bowlby and D. W. Winnicott: imperfect visionaries
‘Adjusting the bonds of love’
‘Home is where we start from’: the home as a ‘holding environment’
4. The ‘long sixties’: 1958–1974
Parent–child relations and the changing perception of children
Second-wave feminism: the ‘captive wife’
Children’s rights and the beginning of the end of ‘progressive’ education
Some left-wing attitudes toward ‘the family’
Part 3. Influences and examples from the USA
5. Social science and American liberalism
Parenting democracy’s children
The ‘Great Society’: the ‘war on poverty’, and the ‘will to empower’
Saving liberal individualism: Diana Baumrind and the invention of ‘authoritative’ parenting
Part Four. Parental narcissism in neoliberal times: 1970s to the present
6. Aspects of neoliberalism: political, economic and social realignments
From the ‘golden age’ to modern times
The tribulations of ‘post democracy’: the rise of ‘political disenchantment’
Narcissism in the nursery: feminism, neoliberalism and the social liberationist agenda
7. Laying the foundations for parental narcissism
The New Right emerges: Sir Keith Joseph and the ‘cycle of deprivation’
The New Right, the Labour Party and the remoralising of Britain
The ‘new behaviourism’ and problematising children’s behaviour
8. The New Labour era, and beyond: narcissism comes of age
Neoliberal children: the ‘iconic’ child as human capital
The discipline of ASBO (anti-social behaviour order) culture: breeding childism
Parenting in New Labour’s neoliberal universe
The ethics of the parenting programmes
Childism unveiled: Supernanny – the dominatrix in the nursery
Part Five. Therapeutic reflections
9. Narcissism and the ‘politics of recognition’: concepts of the late-modern self
A late-modern point of departure: the ‘postsocialist’ condition
and the politics of redistribution/recognition
The self and identity politics
Individualisation, identity and the self: ‘a fate, not a choice’
Narcissistic parenting in an insecure world
：A history of parenting culture 1920s to present
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