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The Lingfield Children: Psychoanalysis in the Shadow of War

The Lingfield Children: Psychoanalysis in the Shadow of War

Clifford, Rebecca

Hardcover

Historical FiguresGeneral PsychologyHolocaust

Publisher Price: $27.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date May 11, 2027

ISBN10: 1039058299
ISBN13: 9781039058293
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Published: May 11 2027
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.91 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A revelatory work of narrative history, an unforgettable story of child Holocaust survivors and a profound rethinking of trauma, memory and resilience, The Lingfield Children uncovers the forgotten care home where the aftermath of the Holocaust transformed modern child psychology.

In December 1945, a small group of children arrived at a country estate in Lingfield, Surrey. They were all survivors of Theresienstadt, the Nazi ghetto-camp not far from Prague where they had spent most of their short childhoods. What they did not know was that, from the moment they crossed the threshold, they would become the subjects of one of the most remarkable studies of childhood ever undertaken.

Overseen by Anna Freud and her circle of pioneering child psychoanalysts who had moved to Britain fleeing war, this community became both a refuge and an experiment. While the children rebuilt their lives, their games, dreams and nightmares were carefully recorded in the hope of answering one the most urgent questions of the postwar period: what is the impact of growing up without a mother? This study transformed psychology, and its influence can still be found today in everything from attachment theory to modern ideas about trauma. Yet the children themselves were never told the true extent to which their lives had been observed.

Drawing on archives across the world and the voices of the survivors themselves, historian Rebecca Clifford skilfully reconstructs the intertwined lives of the children and the women who cared for them. As it sheds new light on one of the most compelling untold stories of the postwar period, The Lingfield Children offers a gripping story of memory, the Holocaust and the limits of psychology.

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