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Anna Freud
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Anna Freud was an Austrian-British psychoanalyst who lived from 1895 to 1982 and made significant contributions to understanding how psychological theories apply to children. Her work matters because she helped establish child psychoanalysis as a field and shaped modern thinking about child development and mental health.
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Anna
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Austria
- Place of birth
- Vienna
- Place of death
- London
- Father
- Sigmund Freud
- Mother
- Martha Bernays
- Occupation
- non-fiction writer
- Employer
- Yale University
- Languages spoken
- German
- Field of work
- psychoanalyst
- Official website
- www.annafreud.org
- Image
- Portrait of Melanie Klein & A. Freud (cropped).jpg
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- sexual orientation
- lesbianism
- Commons category
- Anna Freud
- date of birth
- 1896-00-00
- date of death
- 1982-10-09
- name in native language
- Anna Freud
- place of burial
- Golders Green Crematorium
- P12749
- Liese Prokop
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Encyclopedic overview
Anna Freud CBE (/frɔɪd/ FROYD; Austrian German: [ˈana ˈfrɔʏd]; 3 December 1895 – 9 October 1982) was a British psychoanalyst of Austrian Jewish descent. 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.
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.
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