Dorothy Burlingham - Work

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Burlingham moved to London in 1938 along with the Freuds who were escaping Nazi anti-semitism. After Sigmund Freud's death the following year, Dorothy Burlingham settled at 2 Maresfield Gardens, not far from Anna Freud, and in 1940 she moved into the Freud home at 20 Maresfield Gardens, where she lived out her days. The two, who would remain partners for the next forty years, would found the Hampstead War Nurseries during World War II, and their joint work there would lead to the publication of Infants Without families (1943). They would also go on to found, along with Helen Ross, in 1951, the Hampstead Clinic, a center which "set out to provide therapy and assistance to families, to treat disturbed and handicapped children irrespective of their problems, social background or past history, and at the same time to offer aspiring analysts the most balanced and rich training possible." Both Burlingham and Freud would work at Hampstead until retirement.

Burlingham died in London in 1979. Her ashes rest in the Golders Green Crematorium, London, next to those of Anna Freud (who died in 1982) and others in the Freud family, including Sigmund Freud.

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