Metadata: Dorothy Burlingham Papers
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Freud Museum
- Holding institution (official language):
- Freud Museum
- Postal address:
- 20 Maresfield GardensHampsteadLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomNW3 5SX
- Web address:
- https://www.freud.org.uk/collections/researchers/
- Email:
- Email: bryony@freud.org.uk
- Reference number:
- DB
- Title:
- Dorothy Burlingham Papers
- Title (official language):
- Dorothy Burlingham Papers
- Creator/accumulator:
- Dorothy Burlingham
- Date(s):
- 1912/1983
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 4 series
- Scope and content:
- The Dorothy Burlingham archive at the Freud Museum London tracks her personal life and professional work. It is divided into four distinct series: Correspondence; Professional papers; Personal papers; and Financial and domestic papers. Her correspondence with Anna Freud is extensive, as is her correspondence with family members, including her children and grandchildren. Her professional papers include many case studies of the children she treated during her long career. Manuscripts for published essays, lectures and books also appear in the archive, alongside more prosaic items about the running of the busy Hampstead Clinic: lists of employees, notes about wages and holidays.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Dorothy Trimble Tiffany was born in New York, the granddaughter of Charles Tiffany, founder of Tiffany & Co. She married Robert Burlingham in 1914, separating from him in 1921. Dorothy moved to Vienna in 1925 and was prompted by her son’s psychosomatic skin disorder to begin her four children in psychoanalysis. She later began psychoanalysis herself, and decided to become a lay analyst. For this she underwent analysis with Sigmund Freud. Here she met Anna Freud, the two living and working as partners throughout their lives, collaborating on published works, living together in Maresfield Gardens in Hampstead and running the Hampstead Clinic. Burlingham worked with Anna Freud to establish first the Hampstead War Nurseries and later the Hampstead Clinic. She wrote on child analysis and development, particularly on blind children and infants, whom she worked with at the Hampstead Clinic.Publications include: Infants Without Families, 1943 (written with Anna Freud); War and Children, 1943 (written with Anna Freud); Twins: A study of three pairs of identical twins, 1952; To Be Blind in a Sighted World, 1979.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Burlingham, Dorothy
- Freud, Anna
- Subject terms:
- Personal records
- Psychology
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.freud.org.uk/collections/archives/archive-records/DB/
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25