born Dec. 3, 1895, Vienna, Austria
died Oct. 9, 1982, London, Eng.
Austrian-born British psychiatrist, founder of the field of child psychiatry.
Daughter of Sigmund Freud , she pioneered in developing psychoanalytic theory and practice. In The Ego and Defense Mechanisms (1936), Freud called repression the principal human defense mechanism. This gave a strong, new impetus to the role of ego in psychology. She and her terminally ill father escaped Nazi-dominated Austria for London in 1938. She co-wrote three books on the effects of war on children. A summation of her thoughts is found in Normality and Pathology in Childhood (1968).
Anna Freud, 0441; 1970.
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