Correspondence, diaries, speeches and lectures, writings, biographical material, and other papers relating primarily to Freud's career as a psychoanalyst in the field of child analysis. Includes drafts of her book, Normality and Pathology in Childhood (1965). Also includes financial records, reports, subject files, and patient case files documenting Freud's work at the Hampstead Child-Therapy Clinic, London, England. Includes reports from Hampstead Nurseries run by Freud and Dorothy T. Burlingham. Subjects include adolescence, aggression, behavior, child concentration camp survivors, child guidance, child observation, child rearing, defense mechanisms, early personality development, emotional development, feeding habits, mental health, neuroses, nursery schools, pathological psychology, physical health, psychic trauma, psychoanalytic technique, psychological problems, regression, relations between child and parent, and social development.

Correspondents include August Aichhorn, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Grete L. Bibring, Princess Marie Bonaparte, G.G. Bunzl, Dorothy T. Burlingham, Helene Deutsch, K.R. Eissler, Ruth Selke Eissler, M. Eitingon, Ernst L. Freud, Elisabeth Geleerd, Joseph Goldstein, Dora Hartmann, Heinz Hartmann, John C. Hill, Willi Hoffer, Edith Banfield Jackson, Ernest Jones, Anny Katan, M. Masud R. Khan, Ernst Kris, Marianne Kris, Jeanne Lampl-de Groot, Rudolph Maurice Loewenstein, Charles L. Mandelstam, J. Moussaieff Masson, Humberto Nagera, Lottie M. Newman, Herman Nunberg, Mark Paterson, James Robertson, Joseph Sandler, Max Schur, Ruth Thomas, and Robert Waelder.