PSYC 31a Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Anna Freud Centre, Anna Freud, Defence Mechanisms
2 Mar 2017
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Same last name as her famous father. Lived in his home, and was his constant companion, aide, and colleague to his death. Lived in vienna until she was 43, when they fled to london to escape the nazis (she was interrogated by gestapo) (s. freud died 18 months later) Did not seek special recognition but did her work quietly with the hundreds of child analysts she trained and with the children she loved. 2 years of psychoanalysis with her father. Shortly after jones got the boot, she trained as an elementary school teacher and taught in a small private school for 5 years. Gave her a chance to know normal children 1st. By 1926, a practicing psychoanalyst, working with kids, lecturing to teachers and parents on how psychoanalytic theory insights could be useful in normal interactions with kids (radical extension) More important, attention to daily activities directed by or in the domain of the ego (the.
