Who Was Anna Freud?
Anna Freud did more than live in her father’s rather long shadow in the field of psychology.
Instead, she became one of the world’s foremost psychoanalysts.
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Anna was not close to her mother and was said to have tense relationships with her five siblings.
She attended a private school but later said she learned little at school.
The majority of her education was from the teachings of her father’s friends and associates.
Her own work expanded upon her father’s ideas, but also created the field of child psychoanalysis.
The nursery served as a psychoanalytic program and home for homeless children.
She also developed different techniques to treat children.
Freud noted that childrens symptoms differed from those of adults and were often related to developmental stages.
Select Works
Biographies
Freud Museum of London.Anna Freud and child psychoanalysis.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press; 2012.
