The Maternalists: Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State - Paperbackby Shaul Bar Haim (Author) The Maternalists is a study of the hitherto unexplored significance of utopian visions of the state as a maternal entity in mid twentieth century Britain. Demonstrating the affinities between welfarism, maternalism, and psychoanalysis, Shaul Bar Haim suggests a new reading of the British welfare state as a political project. After the First World War, British doctors, social thinkers, educators, and policy makers became