Anna freud a biography

This edition of Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's definitive biography of pioneering child analyst Anna Freud includes—among other new features—a.

  • This edition of Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's definitive biography of pioneering child analyst Anna Freud includes—among other new features—a.
  • Anna Freud CBE was a British psychoanalyst of Austrian–Jewish descent.
  • A well-informed and researched history of Anna Freud, rich in factual detail, historical context, and analytic insights.
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  • Anna Freud CBE (3 December 1895 – 9 October 1982) was a British psychoanalyst of Austrian–Jewish descent.

    • A well-informed and researched history of Anna Freud, rich in factual detail, historical context, and analytic insights....

    Anna Freud

    Austrian–British psychoanalyst (1895–1982)

    Anna FreudCBE (3 December 1895 – 9 October 1982) was a British psychoanalyst of Austrian–Jewish descent.[1] She was born in Vienna, the sixth and youngest child of Sigmund Freud and Martha Bernays.

    She followed the path of her father and contributed to the field of psychoanalysis. Alongside Hermine Hug-Hellmuth and Melanie Klein, she may be considered the founder of psychoanalytic child psychology.[2]

    Compared to her father, her work emphasized the importance of the ego and its normal "developmental lines" as well as incorporating a distinctive emphasis on collaborative work across a range of analytical and observational contexts.

    After the Freud family were forced to leave Vienna in 1938 with the advent of the Nazi regime in Austria, she resumed her psychoanalytic practice and her pioneering work in child psychoanalysis in London, establishing the Hampstead Child Therapy Course and Clinic in 1952 (lat