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2. Born December 3, 1895in Vienna, Austria Youngest of Sigmund &Martha Freuds 6children Known as a lively childwith a reputation formischief 3. 1910Anna beganreading her fathers work 1918Her father startedpsychoanalyzing her,sparking Annas interestin psychoanalysis 1920The two attendedthe InternationalPsychoanalyticalCongress together 4. 1922Anna presented her paper BeatingFantasies and Daydreams to the ViennaPsychoanalytical Society, and became amember of the society. 1923She began her own psychoanalyticalpractice with children 1925Anna taught a seminar on the techniqueof child analysis at the Vienna PsychoanalyticTraining Institute, which resulted in her bookIntroduction to the Technique of Child Analysis 5. Anna was the generalsecretary of theInternationalPsychoanalyticalAssociation from 1927to 1934 She continued childanalysis practice, ranseminars, andorganized conferences 1935Anna becamethe director of theViennapsychoanalyticaltraining institute While continuing herown work, she was alsoher fathers maincaretaker and publicrepresentative as hesuffered from cancer 6. Published in 1936 The book establishedher reputation as apioneeringtheoretician It encompassed adescription of how thedefenses work The book describedprinciple defensemechanisms includingrepression, regression,projection, anddisplacement,particularly in children 7. 1930sFreud and Burlinghamgot involved with charitableinitiatives as the economic andpolitical situation worsenedwith oncoming war 1937The two ran a nurseryschool for poor children wherethey were able to observeinfant behavior 8. After war outbreak, Freud set up theHampstead War Nursery Provided foster care for 80+ children of single-parentfamilies Aimed to help children form attachment Published studies of the children under stress inYoung Children in War-time and Infants WithoutFamilies with Burlingham 9. 1947Freud helped establish the HampsteadChild Therapy Courses, which eventuallyincluded a childrens clinic as well Trained English and American child therapists Staff held highly acclaimed weekly case studysessions, which provided practical and theoreticalinsights into their work Summarized her work from the clinic in her bookNormality and Pathology in Childhood 10. Until the end of her life, Freud continued travelling toteach, lecture, and visit friends 1970sShe was particularly concerned with problemsof working with socially disadvantaged children andstudied deviations and delays in development. Freud evolved a technique using developmental lines chartingnormal growth and diagnostic profiles that enabled the analystto separate and identify the case specific factors that deviatedfrom or conformed to normal development 11. Freud began receiving a longseries of honorary doctoratesstarting in 1950 with ClarkUniversity and ending withHarvard in 1980 Died October 9, 1982 Publication of her collectedworks began in 1968, with the 8thand final volume published in1983 The Hampstead Clinic wasrenamed the Anna Freud Center Her home of 40 years wastransformed into the FreudMuseum 12. Anna Freuds life,similar to her fathers,was dedicated to theconstant search foruseful socialapplications ofpsychoanalysis,above all in treatingand learning fromchildren. She is nowconsidered one of thecofounders ofpsychoanalytic childpsychology. 13. Anna Freud Biography. (2013), July 1). Good therapy. Retrieved October 10, 2014, fromhttp://www.goodtherapy.org/famous-psychologists/anna-freud.htmlLife and Work of Anna Freud. (n.d.). The Freud museum. Retrieved October 12, 2014, fromhttp://www.freud.org.uk/education/topic/40053/anna-freud/Owen.A. (n.d.). Anna Freud. Psychology history. Retrieved October 12, 2014, fromhttp://www.muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/afreud.htmYoung-Bruehl, E. (2008). Anna freud: A biography. London; New Haven, CT: Yale UniversityPress.