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.
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.
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