ABSTRACT
Liselotte Frankl, who represented the tradition of ego psychology, worked closely with Anna Freud, first at the War Nurseries and later as medical director at the Hampstead Child-Therapy Clinic. She held the latter position for many years. Frankl also worked with Anna Freud on an educational column in the magazine Nursery World. Liselotte Frankl made some important contributions to developmental psychology, general psychiatry, and child psychoanalysis. In 1937, Herma was employed at the Institute of Psychology, which entertained a difficult relationship to psychoanalysis. This is addressed in the following letter written by Hans Herma to Anna Freud dated January 15, 1937. In 1938, Herma received his PhD at the Institute of Psychology at the University of Vienna. Herma held a private practice for psychotherapy since 1946. Herma held the position of a faculty member in various psychoanalytical training institutions and at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis for 14 years.
