Anna Freud: A Forgotten Pioneer in Psychology

Psychology have always been a man’s field and based on the support of men psychologists such as Sigmund Freud, B.F. Skinner, and John B. Watson. Haplessly, the consequential involvement of women therapist were often disregarded in psychology textbooks. There were many women in psychology, however, who made critical contributions and availed shape the development of the field of psychology. (Very Well, 2017).

One of today’s most influential psychologists that I’m writing about is Anna Freud, born in Vienna on December 3, 1895 the youngest six children, Sigmund Freud and Martha Bernays, followed the same direction as her father and contributed to the field of psychoanalysis. Commenced her vocation under father's wing. She grew up in the household

She used the process by her father Sigmund Freud with some changes directed towards the desiderata of kids. Child psychology has grown into a well-kenned therapeutical approach for children and adolescents. The work of Sigmund Freud was considered revolutionary in his engenderment of psychotherapy, or verbalize therapy, and his theories regarding childhood experiences affecting a person later in life. His legacy was perpetuated by his daughter Anna Freud in her pursuit of psychotherapy and her father’s theories as applied to children and adolescents. (Wikipedia,

Throughout history many theories have been used to endeavor to expound the involute process. Two of those theorists, Freud and Erikson, were instrumental in engendering a substratum for child-psychology to build on. From a Freudian perspective, human development is centered on psychosexual theory. Psychosexual theory designates that maturation of the sex drives underlies stages of personality development. Alternatively, Erikson is considered a Neo-Freudian philomath who developed psychosocial theory. In Erikson models there are eight major conflicts that occur during the course of an individual’s life. Developmental psychology is an area of research devoted to expounding the perpetuating magnification and transmute that occurs over the course of one’s life. Throughout history many varying theories have been used to endeavor to explicate the involute process of childhood experiences altering who individuals become as an adult. Freudian perspective, human development is predicated on psychosexual theory. Psychosexual theory betokens that maturation of the sex drives underlies stages of personality development. It was Freud’s perspective that there are three components of personality that become integrated into his five stage theoretical model. The id was the biological or drive component that is innate from birth. The sole purport of the Id is satiate an individual’s internal