Anna Freud
Anna Freud · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Founder of child psychoanalysis and theorist of ego defense mechanisms
1895, Vienna, Austria — 1982, London, England, United Kingdom
Austria · United Kingdom
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Anna Freud, the youngest daughter of Sigmund Freud, founded child psychoanalysis and systematized the theory of the ego and its defence mechanisms in The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence (1936). After fleeing Nazi-annexed Austria she established the Hampstead Child Therapy Clinic in London, shaping developmental and child psychology. She was Jewish.
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Founder of child psychoanalysis and theorist of ego defense mechanisms
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
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