Anna Freud

Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895–1982)

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Lived 1895–1982, aged 87United Kingdom
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    1895–1982
    Aged 87
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Updated 2026-06-08

She carried the same last name into the same strange work — but Anna Freud made child psychology analytical when it had barely existed at all, and spent decades insisting the ego mattered more than her father ever allowed.

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Born in Vienna on 3 December 1895, the sixth and youngest child of Sigmund Freud and Martha Bernays, Anna followed her father into psychoanalysis but carved her own territory: alongside Hermine Hug-Hellmuth and Melanie Klein, she founded psychoanalytic child psychology. Where Sigmund privileged the unconscious, Anna emphasized the ego's normal developmental lines and pushed for collaborative observation across clinical contexts. In 1938 the Nazi regime forced the Freud family out of Austria; she relocated to London and resumed practice. In 1952 she established the Hampstead Child Therapy Cours…

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