Hampstead War Nurseries was a wartime shelter for children and their families who had been bombed or displaced during World War II and existed between 1941 and 1945. It was established by Anna Freud and her partner Dorothy Burlingham in January 1941 to provide a home.[1][2] The first nursery was known as the "Childrens Rest Centre".[3] that had been established in Hampstead with monies provided by the American Foster Parents’ Plan for War Children.[1]
Formation
editIn June 1938, the psychoanalysts Anna Freud and her father Sigmund Freud had moved to 20 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead in London from Vienna, after the Nazi Anschluss.[1]
References
edit- 1 2 3 Midgley 2007.
- ↑ Kennedy 2009, pp. 306–319.
- ↑ Pretorius 2012, p. 30.
Bibliography
edit- Freud, Anna; Burlingham, Dorothy T. (1974). Infants without families: and, Reports on the Hampstead Nurseries, 1939-1945. London: Hogarth Press : Institute of Psychoanalysis. ISBN 0701203927.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link) - Kennedy, Hansi (January 2009). "Children in Conflict: Anna Freud and the War Nurseries". The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. 64 (1): 306–319. doi:10.1080/00797308.2009.11800826.
- Malberg, Norka T.; Raphael-Leff, Joan, eds. (2012). The Anna Freud tradition. London: Karnac. ISBN 9781780490212.
- Midgley, Nick (1 August 2007). "Anna Freud: The Hampstead War Nurseries and the role of the direct observation of children for psychoanalysis". International Journal of Psychoanalysis. 88 (4): 939–959. doi:10.1516/ijpa.2007.939.
- Pretorius, Inge-Martine (2012). "From the Hampstead War Nurseries to the Anna Freud Centre". In Malberg, Norka T.; Raphael-Leff, Joan (eds.). The Anna Freud Tradition. London: Karnac Books Ltd. ISBN 9781780490212.