You do not currently have permission to view the full text for this document. Please sign in to an account with an active subscription or contact support.
From one of the most productive of all child psychoanalytic research centers comes this collection of papers. They have been culled from a larger group of presentations which constituted the scientific program of the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the Hampstead Child-Therapy Course and Clinic. Each contribution is representative of an area of interest under investigation by members of the staff. The stimulating influence of Anna Freud is reflected throughout, beginning with her foreword and continuing in the form of comments included in many of the papers. In her foreword, Miss Freud briefly outlines the history of the clinic from its beginnings as an outgrowth of the Hampstead Nurseries which she and Dorothy Burlingham operated during World War II. Training, therapy, and research became interrelated goals, with special attention devoted to diagnosis, establishment of an index, and the formation of concept study groups. In one of the chapters in the book, Miss Freud describes the present Nursery School of the Hampstead Child-Therapy Clinic. She dates its current orientation from 1967, when it was designed to serve children of underprivileged and disadvantaged families. This clinic, like some in the United States, attempts to make up for deficiencies in parental care, such as physical nurturing, affection, or mental stimulation.
The first part of the monograph opens with Albert J. Solnit's overview of the clinical and therapeutic activities of the Clinic. He describes the scope of those endeavors under three headings: Direct Observation; Research; and Other Applications of Psychoanalytic Theory. As an illustration of the broader application of psychoanalytic knowledge in the Hampstead tradition, he cites the case of a three-and-a-half-year-old girl treated in a pediatric intensive care unit at Yale University Hospital. The Yale Child Study Center staff collaborated in the treatment of this child, who had suffered severe injuries when she was r