Anna Freud Quotes
It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.
Topics
Child Neglect
Mother Child
Unconditional Love
Emotional Abandonment
Emotional Needs
Emotional Security
Emotional Support
Nurturing Environment
Parental Attention
Parental Engagement
Parental Guidance
Parental Involvement
Parental Love
Parental Neglect
Parental Rejection
Maternal Emotions
Emotional Absence
Parental Feelings
Citations
Freud, Anna. "About Losing and Being Lost." The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, vol. 22, 1967, p. 15.
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Anna Freud was a British psychoanalyst of Austrian-Jewish descent. 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.