Designing better mental healthcare facilities

A new chapter for charity founded by Anna Freud

A mental healthcare charity first established almost 70 years ago by Anna Freud is soon to re-locate from various ageing residential properties to a new purpose-built facility.

A mental healthcare charity first established almost 70 years ago by Anna Freud, one of the founders of child psychoanalysis, is soon to re-locate from various ageing residential properties in Hampstead to a new purpose-built facility near London’s King’s Cross, designed by architects, Penoyre & Prasad. As The Network’s editor, Jonathan Baillie, reports, the new building combines a six-storey new-build with the refurbishment of a century-old former chocolate factory and warehouse. Opening in early 2019, the building will also house a free school and a variety of clinical and research facilities.

The entity that was later to become the Anna Freud National Centre for Children & Families was founded in 1947 by psychoanalyst, Anna Freud, the sixth and youngest child of worldrenowned neurologist and psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud. Today the charity that bears Anna Freud’s name says that her ‘tradition of constant innovation, research, and care, for the most vulnerable young minds’ is still embedded in its work. Born in 1895, Anna Freud followed the path of her famous father, and contributed significantly to the field of psychoanalysis. Alongside Melanie Klein, she is also considered to have been among the founders of psychoanalytic child psychology. 

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