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.


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
Anna Freud
  • Born: December 3, 1895
  • Died: October 9, 1982
  • Nationality: Austrian, British
  • Profession: Psychoanalyst

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.