ABSTRACT
This chapter represents volume four of a series of seven books that will give the total of Anna Freud's contribution in lectures and writings. It covers the period 1945-1956 in which Miss Freud's writings were intimately related to her clinical work and teaching activities, and while she was still very much under the influence of her experiences at the Hampstead War Nurseries. Miss Freud in the Hampstead War Nurseries and in all her work at Hampstead has been able to keep in touch with the observers while herself remaining relatively uninvolved with the children themselves. This position of detachment may have given Miss Freud the freedom to use the observations as material for the support or correction or development of orthodox theories of child development constructed originally from the analysis of adults. The chapter contains full of observation and objective evaluation, and it is worthy of its position as the eightieth volume in the International Psycho-Analytical Library.
