Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Anna freud: a chronology
  • Introduction: Anna Freud, her life, and work
  • Psychoanalysis with children
  • The application of psychoanalytic ideas to education
  • The ego and the mechanisms of defence
  • The Hampstead war nurseries
  • Psychoanalytic research and the observation of children
  • The psychoanalytic treatment of adults
  • The assessment and diagnosis of childhood disorders
  • Developmental psychopathology
  • Child analysis and developmental therapy
  • Psychoanalysis and paediatrics : the care of children in hospital
  • Children and the law
  • Conclusion: the legacy of anna freud
  • Bibliography.