Anna Freud, Psychoanalyst, Dies in London at 86 By Reuters. Anna Freud was a prolific writer, contributing articles on psychoanalysis to many different publications throughout her lifetime. of her own productivity.'' This was Anna Freud's self-effacing summary of a long and productive life. The family was permitted to go to Britain after the payment of money and after Freud had signed a statement that he had been well treated. Anna Freud, daughter of Sigmund Freud and an eminent psychoanalyst in her own right, died at her London home today at the age of 86, her family said. Anna lived in the London house she shared with her father until her own death more than four decades later. children show in sirens, bombs, guns and allclears.'' Among other things, she suggested how the classic modalities of adult psychoanalysis - transference, resistance, motivation and free association - could be utilized with children 4 years old and
However, she did not wield absolute authority over child psychoanalysis. Her rival (and bete noire) was the late Melanie Klein, assumed that children were arbitrarily motivated and that discipline was the surest path to healthy development. The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Ernest Jones, 1908-1939. I changed from that to the field of analysis and child analysis. despite his standing as a neurologist, a hostility so harsh that his masterwork, ''The Interpretation of Dreams,'' was ignored when it was published in 1900. To this end, she held seminars at the Yale Law School that dealt with penal 1971 for a meeting of the International Psychoanalytic Association and only after Vienna had officially expressed regrets for its treatment of the Freuds. She summed up the long and complex sessions in an hour's extemporaneous speech that was remarkable for its organization, at the association's sessions, she was moved almost to tears by an ovation from the delegates. Robert Sussman Stewart, a New York editor who wrote about psychoanalysis, said Miss Freud suggested that a child developed emotionally through a number of stages - the oral, anal, urethral and phallic sexual stages that Sigmund Freud had outlined from circumstantial evidence. Not only had the Viennese scorned her father and refused to protest the German outrages against him, but they had never, in the years since World War II, honored his memory in any way. With a firm grasp of her father's work, she was the accepted explicator of his texts and was listened to accordingly. However, she strongly believed that psychoanalysis was not appropriate for children under the age of six, who could b… Her first patients were adults, but she quickly shifted to children and was the leader of a small group of analysts who met regularly She is recognized as the founder of child psychoanalysis, despite the fact that her father often suggested that children could not be psychoanalyzed. Their home was then transformed into the Freud Museum. and were written with what Dr. Coles called ''a modesty of spirit.'' of children's reactions.
she undertook to comprehend his theories. She relented only in
However, she did not wield absolute authority over child psychoanalysis. Her rival (and bete noire) was the late Melanie Klein, assumed that children were arbitrarily motivated and that discipline was the surest path to healthy development. The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Ernest Jones, 1908-1939. I changed from that to the field of analysis and child analysis. despite his standing as a neurologist, a hostility so harsh that his masterwork, ''The Interpretation of Dreams,'' was ignored when it was published in 1900. To this end, she held seminars at the Yale Law School that dealt with penal 1971 for a meeting of the International Psychoanalytic Association and only after Vienna had officially expressed regrets for its treatment of the Freuds. She summed up the long and complex sessions in an hour's extemporaneous speech that was remarkable for its organization, at the association's sessions, she was moved almost to tears by an ovation from the delegates. Robert Sussman Stewart, a New York editor who wrote about psychoanalysis, said Miss Freud suggested that a child developed emotionally through a number of stages - the oral, anal, urethral and phallic sexual stages that Sigmund Freud had outlined from circumstantial evidence. Not only had the Viennese scorned her father and refused to protest the German outrages against him, but they had never, in the years since World War II, honored his memory in any way. With a firm grasp of her father's work, she was the accepted explicator of his texts and was listened to accordingly. However, she strongly believed that psychoanalysis was not appropriate for children under the age of six, who could b… Her first patients were adults, but she quickly shifted to children and was the leader of a small group of analysts who met regularly She is recognized as the founder of child psychoanalysis, despite the fact that her father often suggested that children could not be psychoanalyzed. Their home was then transformed into the Freud Museum. and were written with what Dr. Coles called ''a modesty of spirit.'' of children's reactions.
she undertook to comprehend his theories. She relented only in