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Jan 24, 2024 · Died: October 9, 1982, in London, England. Parents: Sigmund Freud and Martha Bernays. Contributions: Anna Freud became a major force in British psychology, specializing in the application of psychoanalysis to children. Among her best-known works are The Ego and the Mechanism of Defense (1936).
In 1925 she became Secretary of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), later becoming Honorary President in 1973 until her death in 1982. Anna Freud published in 1927 ’Introduction to the Technique of Child Analysis’ which she was invited to present later in the year in London.
Anna Freud (1895-1982) was a pioneering child psychoanalyst. Her father, Sigmund Freud, was the founder of psychoanalysis – but Anna is not just remembered for being Freud’s daughter.
Our history. Read more about our pioneering founder, Anna Freud and the work that she undertook to strengthen and increase the field of child and early years development. 1895-1940 Early life. 1895: Born, December 3rd, in Vienna, Austria. Sixth child of Martha and Sigmund Freud. 1914: Visits England for the first time.
She was the youngest of Sigmund and Martha Freud’s six children. Anna came to London from Vienna with her family when they fled Nazi-occupied Vienna in June 1938. Here, Anna made a new life, practiced psychoanalysis and established a high reputation in her own right as a pioneer of child psychoanalysis.
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May 17, 2018 · Freud, Anna (1895–1982) Pioneering psychoanalyst who made important theoretical contributions to child development and ego psychology and established a model for training analysts that remains the standard.
Anna Freud and Child Psychoanalysis. A new direction for psychoanalysis. Sigmund Freud worked mostly with adults, helping them to reconstruct their early years through the traces that remained after repression had taken effect. By contrast, Anna Freud was mainly interested in working with children.
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