Anna Freud Research Paper
Lifespan and Personality Development
Lifespan and Personality Development
Anna Freud, the daughter of Sigmund Freud, was a famous psychologist in the 21st century and was well known for her studies in psychoanalysis and child psychology. Anna was born in Vienna, Austria on December 3, 1895, and was the sixth child born in the Freud family. Anna, was extremely close with her father, and was influenced by him, but her work went well beyond her father’s ideas. She was known as the founder of child psychoanalysis, defense mechanisms, and she also made contributions towards the studies of ego psychology. Although Anna Freud never earned a higher degree, her work in psychoanalysis and child psychology contributed to her eminence …show more content…
It was said that her father wrote more about her in his diaries than any other of the children. Because Anna was extremely close with her father, she learned more from him than she did in school. When she was 15, she began reading her father’s work:” a dream she had at age of nineteen months”, which appeared in “The Interpretation of Dreams”. Anna, proceeded to finish her education at Cottage Lyceum, in Vienna in 1912, and after school she was still struggling with depression and was unsure of her future. After finishing school, she went to live with her grandmother in Italy, and then shortly after she was forced to leave because war was declared. In 1914, she went back to Vienna where she finished school, and became a trainee at her old school and then she eventually became a teacher. In 1918, her father started psychoanalysis on her and she became seriously involved with this new profession (Wikipedia, 2013). She taught for three years, and then finally quit, due to tuberculosis. Her analysis was completed in 1922 and thereupon she presented the paper "Beating Fantasies and Daydreams" to the Vienna Psychoanalytical Society, subsequently becoming a member. In 1923, Freud began her own psychoanalytical practice with children and two years later she was teaching at the Vienna Psychoanalytic Training Institute on the technique of child analysis. From 1925 until 1934, she was the Secretary of the International Psychoanalytical Association while she continued child analysis and seminars and conferences on the subject. In 1935, Freud became director of the Vienna Psychoanalytical Training Institute and in the following year she published her influential study of the "ways and means by which the ego wards off displeasure and anxiety", The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence. It became a founding work of ego psychology and established Freud’s reputation as a pioneering
Lifespan and Personality Development
Anna Freud, the daughter of Sigmund Freud, was a famous psychologist in the 21st century and was well known for her studies in psychoanalysis and child psychology. Anna was born in Vienna, Austria on December 3, 1895, and was the sixth child born in the Freud family. Anna, was extremely close with her father, and was influenced by him, but her work went well beyond her father’s ideas. She was known as the founder of child psychoanalysis, defense mechanisms, and she also made contributions towards the studies of ego psychology. Although Anna Freud never earned a higher degree, her work in psychoanalysis and child psychology contributed to her eminence …show more content…
It was said that her father wrote more about her in his diaries than any other of the children. Because Anna was extremely close with her father, she learned more from him than she did in school. When she was 15, she began reading her father’s work:” a dream she had at age of nineteen months”, which appeared in “The Interpretation of Dreams”. Anna, proceeded to finish her education at Cottage Lyceum, in Vienna in 1912, and after school she was still struggling with depression and was unsure of her future. After finishing school, she went to live with her grandmother in Italy, and then shortly after she was forced to leave because war was declared. In 1914, she went back to Vienna where she finished school, and became a trainee at her old school and then she eventually became a teacher. In 1918, her father started psychoanalysis on her and she became seriously involved with this new profession (Wikipedia, 2013). She taught for three years, and then finally quit, due to tuberculosis. Her analysis was completed in 1922 and thereupon she presented the paper "Beating Fantasies and Daydreams" to the Vienna Psychoanalytical Society, subsequently becoming a member. In 1923, Freud began her own psychoanalytical practice with children and two years later she was teaching at the Vienna Psychoanalytic Training Institute on the technique of child analysis. From 1925 until 1934, she was the Secretary of the International Psychoanalytical Association while she continued child analysis and seminars and conferences on the subject. In 1935, Freud became director of the Vienna Psychoanalytical Training Institute and in the following year she published her influential study of the "ways and means by which the ego wards off displeasure and anxiety", The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence. It became a founding work of ego psychology and established Freud’s reputation as a pioneering