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Title
Date(s)
- c.1968–c.1970 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
2 boxes / 2 items (5 pp & c1400 pp)
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Nancy Born is the pseudonym adopted by the writer of these diaries, which begin with a summary of events in her life leading up to her analysis with D W Winnicott.
She obtained a BA honours degree at Oxford University and taught for two years in a girls' boarding school near London. She then lived in Budapest for ten years, where she taught English and had her first analysis. She returned to England in 1937 and worked with D W Winnicott at Paddington Green Children's Hospital until the start of the Second World War. She was accepted in 1938 as a student for training at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and later qualified as a psychoanalyst. During the war, she worked as a psychiatric social worker in a child guidance clinic in the north of England. After the war, she returned to London and entered into psychoanalytic practice, as well as returning to work at Paddington Green Children's Hospital as a psychotherapist, again working with Winnicott.
She re-entered analysis in 1946 and, following the death of her analyst, became a patient of Winnicott in 1947.
The dates of birth and death of Nancy Born are not known but she was known to be deceased when the manuscript was transferred to the archives in 1986.
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
An account by an anonymous patient of psychoanalytic treatment with D W Winnicott.
Manuscript of diaries providing a detailed account of psychoanalytic treatment with D W Winnicott. The diaries, written by a regressed patient under the pseudonym Nancy Born, describe the first five years (1947-1952) of the patient's analysis. The manuscript includes notes contributed by Winnicott and is accompanied by brief extracts of correspondence between the author and Winnicott regarding the writing process.
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System of arrangement
Correspondence first, then manuscript.
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Language of material
- English
Script of material
- Latin
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Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
The collection catalogue is published online.
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Material related to Winnicott's activities within the British Psychoanalytical Society can be found in the records of the Society (ref. S).
Other papers related to D W Winnicott are held at:
NY Cornell University, USA (personal papers)
St Mary's Hospital (records of Winnicott as Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Child Clinic at Paddington Green)
The Wellcome Library holds papers of D W Winnicott (personal papers, plus paediatric records from the London County Council Rheumatism Clinic, 1920s/1930s, ref. PP/DWW) as well as papers of Clare Winnicott (ref. GC/148).
Publication note
No known publications based on this material.
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Place access points
Name access points
- Winnicott | Donald Woods (Subject)
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Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
- Latin
Sources
Information taken from the manuscript.