The Life of Anna Freud
Born in Vienna on December 3, 1985, Anna Freud was the youngest daughter of Sigmund and Martha Freud. Anna was a mischievous little girl and a friend once wrote “Anna has become downright beautiful through naughtiness.” During Anna’s childhood, relationships were lacked with her fellow sibling and the rivaled relationship between Anna and her sister Sophie steamed from craving of their father’s attention. Anna spent her summers at health camps to help her try to overcome many help issues possibly related to depression and eating disorders. The relationship with Anna’s mother was distant and a preference was shown toward the Anna’s nurse. The relationship with Anna’s father was strong. Anna trained to be a …show more content…
In 1937, Anna and Dorothy had an opportunity to work with an American lady name Edith. Edith, funded a nursery school which gave Dorothy and Anna, During the Nazi invasion, the Freud family fled Austria and moved to England. At this point in Anna’s life, she ran the Hampstead War Nursery, this nursery provided foster care as well as encourage attachment and bonding for young victims of the war. Anna published a book called “Normality and Pathology in Childhood.” The book was based on how stress affected children along with the importance of having a foster attachment when a child’s parents are absent. The Hampstead War Nursery began offering classes in 1947 to help children with psychological needs. In the latter part of Anna’s life, time was spent at Yale University teaching courses on the effect of crime and family relationships. Anna was given the opportunity to become a co-author on the subject with Albert Solnit and Joseph Goldstein. The book was called “Beyond the Best Interests of the Child in 1973”. Anna Freud passed in …show more content…
Children were affected by early disruptions in attachment which effected them differently and created psychological problems. The work of Anna cemented the way for later research on the effects of abandonment and extreme neglect on early attachments. Anna took the work that her father had done in regards to oral, urethral, and phallic stages of psychosexual development with adults and tightened those theories to the effects of children. Contemporary psychologists still rely on many of her defense
Born in Vienna on December 3, 1985, Anna Freud was the youngest daughter of Sigmund and Martha Freud. Anna was a mischievous little girl and a friend once wrote “Anna has become downright beautiful through naughtiness.” During Anna’s childhood, relationships were lacked with her fellow sibling and the rivaled relationship between Anna and her sister Sophie steamed from craving of their father’s attention. Anna spent her summers at health camps to help her try to overcome many help issues possibly related to depression and eating disorders. The relationship with Anna’s mother was distant and a preference was shown toward the Anna’s nurse. The relationship with Anna’s father was strong. Anna trained to be a …show more content…
In 1937, Anna and Dorothy had an opportunity to work with an American lady name Edith. Edith, funded a nursery school which gave Dorothy and Anna, During the Nazi invasion, the Freud family fled Austria and moved to England. At this point in Anna’s life, she ran the Hampstead War Nursery, this nursery provided foster care as well as encourage attachment and bonding for young victims of the war. Anna published a book called “Normality and Pathology in Childhood.” The book was based on how stress affected children along with the importance of having a foster attachment when a child’s parents are absent. The Hampstead War Nursery began offering classes in 1947 to help children with psychological needs. In the latter part of Anna’s life, time was spent at Yale University teaching courses on the effect of crime and family relationships. Anna was given the opportunity to become a co-author on the subject with Albert Solnit and Joseph Goldstein. The book was called “Beyond the Best Interests of the Child in 1973”. Anna Freud passed in …show more content…
Children were affected by early disruptions in attachment which effected them differently and created psychological problems. The work of Anna cemented the way for later research on the effects of abandonment and extreme neglect on early attachments. Anna took the work that her father had done in regards to oral, urethral, and phallic stages of psychosexual development with adults and tightened those theories to the effects of children. Contemporary psychologists still rely on many of her defense