War and Children

Anna Freud, Dorothy T. Burlingham

• Editorial: Barakaldo Books
• Año: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781839746185
• Categoría: Psychology
• Categoría: History & Theory in Psychology

This book looks at the record of children in modern war told honestly and completely, by two of the world's outstanding child psychologists, Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlingham. The work focuses on how war affects psychological development in children; the need for personal attachment, for emotional stability, and for permanency of educational influence.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS 4

FOREWORD 5

INTRODUCTION 6

SURVEY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL REACTIONS 8

REACTION TO DESTRUCTION 10

FIVE TYPES OF AIR RAID ANXIETY 12

REACTION TO EVACUATION 17

Development of the Mother-Relationship and the Effect of Separation from the Mother at the Various Stages 21

MOTHER AND CHILD RELATIONSHIP IN THE EARLY STAGES 25

Further Fate of the Child-Parent Relationship 28

NORMAL AND ABNORMAL OUTLETS 30

Outlet in Speech 31

Outlet in Play 32

Outlet in Behaviour 34

Outlet in Phantasy 35

Return to Infantile Modes of Behaviour (Regression) 36

Bed Wetting 37

FORMS OF GRATIFICATION 38

Greed 39

Aggression 40

Temper Tantrums 41

Abnormal Withdrawal of the Emotional Interest from the Outside World 42

PRACTICAL CONCLUSIONS 44

REPORTS 46

HAMPSTEAD NURSERY — January-February, 1941 47

Allaying Fear 48

Parent Co-operation 49

THE SHOCK OF SEPARATION — March 1941 50

Patrick 51

FURTHER OBSERVATIONS — April 1941 53

Identification 55

Separation 56

Jill 57

Hetty and Christine 59

REACTION TO AIR-RAIDS — May 1941 60

Artificial Orphans 62

PARENTS AND CHILDREN — June-J...

Índice

• Title page
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• FOREWORD
• INTRODUCTION
• SURVEY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL REACTIONS
• REACTION TO DESTRUCTION
• FIVE TYPES OF AIR RAID ANXIETY
• REACTION TO EVACUATION
• MOTHER AND CHILD RELATIONSHIP IN THE EARLY STAGES
• NORMAL AND ABNORMAL OUTLETS
• FORMS OF GRATIFICATION
• PRACTICAL CONCLUSIONS
• REPORTS
• HAMPSTEAD NURSERY - January-February, 1941
• THE SHOCK OF SEPARATION - March 1941
• FURTHER OBSERVATIONS - April 1941
• REACTION TO AIR-RAIDS - May 1941
• PARENTS AND CHILDREN - June-July 1941
• THE COUNTRY HOUSE - August 1941
• CHILDREN IN THE COUNTRY - September 1941
• PARENT UNDERSTANDING - October-November 1941
• REUNION AFTER SEPARATION - December 1941
• ARTIFICIAL FAMILIES - January-Match 1942
• CONFLICTING ATTITUDES - April-July 1942
• CHILDREN’S REACTIONS TO WAR - August-December 1942
• CONCLUSIONS