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Selected Writings

Selected Writings

Anna Freud

'There are few situations in life which are more difficult to cope with than an adolescent son or daughter during the attempt to liberate themselves' Anna Freud was one of the most innovative thinkers in the history of psychoanalysis, whose ...
Reading Anna Freud

Reading Anna Freud

Nick Midgley

Reading Anna Freud provides an accessible introduction to the writings of one of the most significant figures in the history of psychoanalysis.
Normality and Pathology in Childhood: Assessments of Development

Normality and Pathology in Childhood: Assessments of Development

Anna Freud

Anna Freud's book deals with a most neglected aspect of psychoanalysis - normality.
Anna Freud: A Biography

Anna Freud: A Biography

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

This new edition of the biography of pioneering child analyst Anna Freud includes, among other features, a major retrospective introduction by the author.
The Anna Freud Tradition: Lines of Development - Evolution ...

The Anna Freud Tradition: Lines of Development - Evolution ...

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This volume honors Anna Freud's work and legacy by providing a detailed summary of the Psychoanalytic Developmental Tradition and illustrations of its contributions to the field of child psychotherapy and beyond.
Anna Freud: a life dedicated to children

Anna Freud: a life dedicated to children

Uwe Henrik Peters

Traces the intellectual and professional development of Anna Freud, from her childhood in Vienna to her introduction to psychoanalysis by her father, her development of child analysis, and her founding of the Hampstead Clinic
The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence

The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence

Anna Freud

Anna Freud's arguments have a clarity and cogency reminiscent of her father's and the work is remarkable undated. Nothing stands still, but The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense has unmistakably passed the test of time.
The Harvard Lectures

The Harvard Lectures

Anna Freud

'This remarkable series of introductory lectures on psychoanalysis is, in fact, a lucid, elegant and profound overview of classic psychoanalytic theory, in which Anna Freud spells out the main aspects of psychoanalytic psychology.
Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and the Psychoanalysis of ...

Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and the Psychoanalysis of ...

Alex Holder

The central theme of this book is concerned with the controversies on technique between Anna Freud and Melanie Klein in the 1920s and 1930s, and with a clear differentiation between child analysis proper and analytical child psychotherapy.
Anna Freud: A View of Development, Disturbance and ...

Anna Freud: A View of Development, Disturbance and ...

Rose Edgcumbe

Anna Freud, daughter of Sigmund, made many original contributions to psychoanalytic theory and child development, and yet much of her work remains relatively unknown. In this book, Rose Edgcumbe seeks to redress the situation.
Returns of the French Freud:: Freud, Lacan, and Beyond

Returns of the French Freud:: Freud, Lacan, and Beyond

Todd Dufresne

Creating a snapshot of current thinking about psychoanalysis, this lively collection examines the legacy of Freud and Lacan.
Against Freud: Critics Talk Back

Against Freud: Critics Talk Back

Todd Dufresne

Against Freud is a highly accessible, informative, and entertaining examination of Freud's controversial ideas and legacy by the world's most knowledgeable critics of psychoanalysis. This is a fascinating work.
Freud

Freud

Richard Webster

It is this which Richard Webster has set out to do in a book which provides both a lucid introduction to Freud's theories and a striking account of why it is that Freud is still widely regarded as the most important of all modern thinkers.
Escape of Sigmund Freud

Escape of Sigmund Freud

David Cohen

On the morning of June 4, six passengers got off the Orient Express at the Gare de l'Est. William Bullitt, Marie Bonaparte, Ernest Jones, and Martin Freud were there to meet them. Freud and his party were settled in the Bonaparte Bentley and ...
The Death of Sigmund Freud: Fascism, Psychoanalysis and the ...

The Death of Sigmund Freud: Fascism, Psychoanalysis and the ...

Mark Edmundson

Here Mark Edmundson traces Hitler and Freud's oddly converging lives, then zeroes in on the last two years of Freud's life, during which he was rescued and brought to London.
Freud

Freud

Jonathan Lear

Jonathan Lear clearly introduces and assesses all of Freud's thought, focusing on those areas of philosophy on which Freud is acknowledged to have had a lasting impact.
A Cultural Citizen of the World: Sigmund Freud's Knowledge ...

A Cultural Citizen of the World: Sigmund Freud's Knowledge ...

Siegbert Salomon Prawer

Based on an intensive study of the original German text of Freud's writings, letters and journals, S. S. Prawer's new book is the first to make a full and systematic map of Freud's use of English literature.
Freud for Historians

Freud for Historians

Peter Gay

the Oedipus complex was just one of Sigmund Freud's "bright," by which he meant ridiculous, ideas. ... Review of William Bullitt and Sigmund Freud, Thomas Woodrow Wilson: A Psychological Study (1967), in The New Statesman and Nation, ...
Greatness and Limitations of Freud's Thought

Greatness and Limitations of Freud's Thought

Erich Fromm

Renowned social psychologist Erich Fromm’s classic study of Freud’s most important—and controversial—ideas Bestselling philosopher and psychoanalyst Erich Fromm contends that the principle behind Freud’s work—the wellspring from ...
Sigmund Freud: life and work, 1856-1939

Sigmund Freud: life and work, 1856-1939

Barbara Sternthal

Sigmund Freud and William Bullitt, the American Ambassador to Pans. Photograph, 5 June 1938. Above Interim stay in the garden of the Bonaparte villa in Paris. From left to right: Mane Bonaparte. Sigmund and Martha Freud, Ernst and Lucie ...
Colazione con Lucian Freud

Colazione con Lucian Freud

Geordie Greig

Libro caleidoscopico, basato su lunghe conversazioni con gli amici, i figli e i conoscenti più stretti di Freud, Colazione con Lucian Freud è un ritratto intimo dell'artista da giovane e nella vecchiaia, un racconto affascinante, ...
Freud on Coke

Freud on Coke

David Cohen

The story of Freud's involvement with cocaine and how it affected research long after he died.
Freud

Freud

Jonathan Lear

The second edition includes a new Introduction and Conclusion. The text is revised throughout, including new sections on psychological structure and object relations and on Freud’s critique of religion and morality.
Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Brontë's Grave

Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Brontë's Grave

Simon Goldhill

In Freud's Couch, Scott’s Buttocks, Brontë's Grave, Goldhill makes a pilgrimage to Sir Walter Scott's baronial mansion, Wordsworth's cottage in the Lake District, the Bront ë parsonage, Shakespeare's birthplace, and Freud's office in ...
Freud and Tragedy

Freud and Tragedy

Heinz Politzer

The book examines Sigmund Freud's life and work, and sees tragedy as a concept of central importance in both.
Sigmund Freud: His Life and Mind

Sigmund Freud: His Life and Mind

Helen Walker Puner

Biography detailing Freud's relationship with his mother and wife, his ambivalent love for his father and later authority figures and his feelings about his Jewish background
Essential Papers on the Psychology of Women

Essential Papers on the Psychology of Women

Claudia Zanardi

The British school that followed Anna Freud's theory incorporated the viewpoint of object relatedness into a Freudian position. Rose Edgcumbe (1976) analyzed data taken from the analyses of little girls at the Hampstead Clinic and found that  ...
Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open

Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open

Phoebe Hoban

This first biography of the English painter and grandson of Sigmund Freud traces the life of this extraordinary artist who painted everyone from Kate Moss to Queen Elizabeth and whose intent was always to find and reveal the character ...
Freud On Women

Freud On Women

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

' This collection contains Freud's most significant statements on women, taken form letters as well as published work, presenting a clear, accessible view of the progress of his thought and his own struggle for understanding and coherence.

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