Anna Freud: Selected Writings - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140268146 ISBN 13: 9780140268140

Publisher: Penguin, 1998

Synopsis

Although she always remained faithful to the basic frameworks established by her father, Anna Freud (1895-1982) was one of the most creative and innovative thinkers in the history of psychoanalysis. A pioneer in child analysis, Anna Freud wrote extensively on both normal and pathological child development. This superb anthology starts with substantial extracts from her classic Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence, the first crucial contribution to psychoanalytic theory elaborated by someone other than Sigmund Freud, and follows with fundamental papers on adolescence and analytical technique. Introductory notes and linking passages make this volume a definitive overview of Anna Freud's career.

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Review:

An achievement of the first importance ... The authors are to be congratulated on producing a work that not only underlines the clarity and cogency of Anna Freud's thinking, but makes it accessible to a wide audience that will include not only psychoanalysts, but all those with a serious concern for children and the way they become adults. (Clifford Yorke, former Medical Director, the Anna Freud Centre, London)

About the Author:

Richard Ekins and Ruth Freeman are both psychoanalysts in private practice. They are the co-authors of Centres and Peripheries of Psychoanalysis.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0140268146
• ISBN 13: 9780140268140
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Richard Ekins And Ruth Freeman