In this volume, Christiane Ludwig-Körner describes the lives and work of the staff members of the War Nurseries set up and run by Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlingham during the Second World War.

Christiane Ludwig-Körner is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, training analyst and supervisor for the IPA. She has taught developmental and clinical psychology at the University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam, and at the International Psychoanalytic University Berlin (IPU), Germany, where she now holds a senior professorship.