Contributions to the History of Psychology: XL. The Hampstead Wartime Nurseries

Abstract

To learn the fate of the Hampstead Wartime Nurseries established by Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlingham during World War II, the writer visited the sites 40 yr. later. Although she found they no longer exist, she learned they served as the precursor to the existing Hampstead Therapy and Child Clinic, the largest training center in the world offering a subspecialty of child psychoanalysis. Some of Anna and Dorothy's major findings about children are included. Their burial sites demonstrate the friendship, dedication and devotion the two had.