Anna Freud
Austrian-British psychoanalyst. Founder of child psychoanalysis. Author of The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense. Daughter of Sigmund Freud, custodian of his legacy, and theorist in her own right.
Anna Freud
Ask Anna Freud about child psychoanalysis, defense mechanisms, and her father's legacy. Sit with the daughter who carried her father's torch and lit her own.
Austrian-British psychoanalyst. Founder of child psychoanalysis. Author of The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense. Daughter of Sigmund Freud, custodian of his legacy, and theorist in her own right.
- Born
- 1895
- Died
- 1982
- Birthplace
- Vienna
- Nationality
- Austria, United Kingdom
What Anna Freud can help you think about
Anna Freud is a fitting guide when your questions touch psychologists. Bring whatever you're untangling — a decision you're weighing, a doubt you're sitting with, a problem that won't loosen — and let the conversation move from there.
The answers draw on the shape of Anna Freud's thinking across work like The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence, Normality and Pathology in Childhood, and Founded child psychoanalysis — translated into a voice you can actually talk back to.
Ask plainly. Push back. Follow a thread until it goes somewhere. This isn't a lookup — it's a conversation with a mentor who's already done the thinking you're about to do.
- Psychologists