War and Children
Published on 9. October 2020
122 pages
978-1-83974-618-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Content
- Intro
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- INTRODUCTION
- SURVEY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL REACTIONS
- REACTION TO DESTRUCTION
- FIVE TYPES OF AIR RAID ANXIETY
- REACTION TO EVACUATION
- Development of the Mother-Relationship and the Effect of Separation from the Mother at the Various Stages
- MOTHER AND CHILD RELATIONSHIP IN THE EARLY STAGES
- Further Fate of the Child-Parent Relationship
- NORMAL AND ABNORMAL OUTLETS
- Outlet in Speech
- Outlet in Play
- Outlet in Behaviour
- Outlet in Phantasy
- Return to Infantile Modes of Behaviour (Regression)
- Bed Wetting
- FORMS OF GRATIFICATION
- Greed
- Aggression
- Temper Tantrums
- Abnormal Withdrawal of the Emotional Interest from the Outside World
- PRACTICAL CONCLUSIONS
- REPORTS
- HAMPSTEAD NURSERY - January-February, 1941
- Allaying Fear
- Parent Co-operation
- THE SHOCK OF SEPARATION - March 1941
- Patrick
- FURTHER OBSERVATIONS - April 1941
- Identification
- Separation
- Jill
- Hetty and Christine
- REACTION TO AIR-RAIDS - May 1941
- Artificial Orphans
- PARENTS AND CHILDREN - June-July 1941
- Bertie
- THE COUNTRY HOUSE - August 1941
- CHILDREN IN THE COUNTRY - September 1941
- Modes of Behaviour
- PARENT UNDERSTANDING - October-November 1941
- Training Scheme
- REUNION AFTER SEPARATION - December 1941
- ARTIFICIAL FAMILIES - January-Match 1942
- CONFLICTING ATTITUDES - April-July 1942
- Ambivalent Attitude of Mothers towards Separation from their young Children
- Expression of the same Ambivalence on Visiting the Child
- Undisturbed Positive Reactions of Mothers to their Babies, even after Separation
- Ambivalence towards Babies
- Purely Negative Reactions towards the Baby
- Summary
- CHILDREN'S REACTIONS TO WAR - August-December 1942
- Children's Reactions to Bombs
- Children's Reaction to Hitler
- CONCLUSIONS
