Anna freud education

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. Begins her apprenticeship as a teacher.  

• 1919: Volunteers at the radical Baumgarten Children's Home which aims to transform  

  education and provides, food and shelter to Viennese Jewish war orphans.

• 1927: Publishes an ‘Introduction to the Technique of Child Psychoanalysis’, creating the foundation for direct therapeutic work with children. Founds the Matchbox schools which lays the foundation for her later work, applying psychoanalytic theory to progressive education.

• 1936: Publishes ‘The Ego and the Mechanisms of the Defence’, one of the most influential books in the history of psychoanalysis.

• 1937: Establishes the Jackson Nursery for deprived toddlers.

• 1938: Escapes from the Nazis, fleeing Vienna with her family to li

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  Profile

  Anna Freud

  Birth:

  1895

  Death:

  1982

  Training Location(s):

  Primary Affiliation(s):

  International Psychoanalytical Association (1927-1934)

  Vienna Psychoanalytical Training Institute (1935-1938)

  The Hampstead War Nursery (1941-1945)

  The Hampstead Child Therapy Clinic (1952-1982)

  Career Focus:

  Child psychoanalysis; ego psychology; childhood development; developmental psychology.

  Biography

  Anna Freud was born December 3, 1895 in Vienna, Austria. As the daughter of Sigmund Freud, she was inescapably steeped in the psychoanalytic theories of her famous father; however, she did more than simply live in his shadow, pioneering the field of child psychoanalysis and extending the concept of defense mechanisms to develop ego psychology.

  After finishing her secondary education in 1912 at Cottage Lyceum in Vienna, she completed teachers' training and worked at her alma mater as a classroom teacher for five years. Of her scho

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  Anna Freud

  Austrian–British psychoanalyst (1895–1982)

  Anna FreudCBE (3 December 1895 – 9 October 1982) was a British psychoanalyst of Austrian–Jewish descent.^[1] 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.^[2]

  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.

  After the Freud family were forced to leave Vienna in 1938 with the advent of the Nazi regime in Austria, she resumed her psychoanalytic practice and her pioneering work in child psychoanalysis in London, establishing the Hampstead Child Therapy Course and Clinic in 1952 (later renamed the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families) as a centre for therapy, traini