Anna Freud: The Early Life And Biography Of Anna Freud

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Anna Freud was born December 3, 1895 in Vienna Austria, and died October 9, 1982 in London, England. She was the last child of six to Sigmund Freud and Martha Bernays. Anna was a psychologist of the 20th century. She is considered the co-founder of psychoanalytic child psychology alone with Melanie Klein. As her father put it, child psychology “had received a powerful impetus through the work of Frau Melanie Klein and of my daughter, Anna Freud”. Anna did her work emphasized the importance of the ego and the capacity to be able to trained it socially.She learned and gained a lot of knowledge from her father and the lot of guests he use to let come at there home. She also had to learned a lot of different languages including Hebrew, German and French, because she had to know how to speak them when she was the host for her dad guest. Growing up her childhood was very unhappy, which help her to study child psychology.Within my research paper i plan on covering as much information about Anna Freud as i have learned and read on my own, this stuff will includes: her early life, professi...

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