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Hampstead
Nurseries Records, 1931-1948
Historical Note:
Hampstead War Nursery was founded by Anna Freud in 1940 in England as a
foster care home for over 80 children of single-parented families.
Together with her close friend Dorothy Burlingham
and other
colleagues, Anna Freud worked with the nursery children, helping them
to survive the stress of war. Later the nursery was joined by a group
of orphans from the Theresianstadt concentration camp. When the war was
over, Anna Freud and Kate Friedlaender turned the foster home into a
school for child psychoanalysis known as Hamstead Child-Therapy Courses
and later Clinic. Freud's and Burlingham's studies and
observations of
the Nursery's children have been reflected in their published studies Young
Children in War-Time, Infants without Families, and
An Experiment in Group Upbringing. Anna
Freud's work at the the clinic has been summarized in the Research
at the Hampstead Child-Therapy Clinic (1956-1965) and her
book Normality and Pathology in Childhood (1965).
Summary: the
collection contains nursery's
articles
and bulletins, Katherine Robertson's observations and the
Foster Parents' Plan for War Children reports of 1941-1950.
The BPSI Archives also holds a copy of a film The
Hampstead Child-Therapy Course and Clinic
released by Anna Freud Center in 2006. The
documentary, compiled
and directed by Jan Tewkesbury and produced by Sydney Pollack, features
a series of interviews and meetings with Anna Freud, Dorothy
Burlingham, the staff and students, filmed at the Hampstead Clinic in
London, in June 1976.
Finding
Aid for
this collection is available
here (viewing it requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).
Related BPSI Collections
Child Analysis
Materials, 1926-1989
Putnam Children's
Center Collection, 1942-1991
Putnam Children's
Center Photographs, 1958-1966
Related
Archives
Records of Foster Parents Plan International
(1939-1994) at University of Rhode Island
Related Sites
The
Anna Freud Centre in London
Anna Freud's Biography (from Freud
Museum in London)
Anna Freud (1895-1982): Adoption History
Project
The Carter-Jenkins Center: Anna Freud
Materials
Plan (formerly Foster Parents Plan)
International Website
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