Children of Separation Amp Loss

Gertrude Pollitt recounts the challenges of her adventurous life. After a privileged childhood in Vienna, she fled the Nazis, survived the London Blitz, helped war-traumatized children in Germany, and emigrated to Chicago where she worked as a clinical social worker, psychoanalyst, and Executive Director of the Center for Psychoanalytic Study.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Prologue
1. Childhood in Vienna
2. Vienna Before the Nazis
3. Anschluss
4. On My Own in London
5. Back to School
6. Germany
7. Camp Aschau
8. Back in London
9. Chicago
10. Glencoe
11. The Center for Psychoanalytic Study
12. Highland Park
Epilogue
Appendix
Selected Bibliography

About the author

Dr. Gertrude Pollitt, Executive Director Emerita Center for Psychoanalytic Study in Chicago, is a practicing psychoanalyst, clinician, and social worker. She serves as consultant to agencies, schools, and mental health professionals and has been published in professional journals.

Summary

Gertrude Pollitt recounts the challenges of her adventurous life. After a privileged childhood in Vienna, she fled the Nazis, survived the London Blitz, helped war-traumatized children in Germany, and emigrated to Chicago where she worked as a clinical social worker, psychoanalyst, and Executive Director of the Center for Psychoanalytic Study.

Product details

• Authors: Gertrude Pollitt, Pollitt Gertrude
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2014
• EAN: 9780761863410
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-6341-0
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Europe, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, Memoirs, Psychotherapy, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1940 to c 1949, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs