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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809315903321

Autore

Graham P. J (Philip Jeremy)

Titolo

Susan Isaacs : a life freeing the minds of children / / Philip Graham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Karnac, 2009

ISBN

0-429-91959-X

0-429-90536-X

0-429-48059-8

1-282-77997-4

9786612779978

1-84940-833-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (513 p.)

Disciplina

618.92/8917092

Soggetti

Child psychoanalysts - Great Britain

Teachers - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-344) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copy Right; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: Damaged roots; CHAPTER TWO: Our star student; CHAPTER THREE: An academic marriage; CHAPTER FOUR: Finding a place on the couch; CHAPTER FIVE: The Malting House School: a dream becomes reality; CHAPTER SIX: Rise and fall of the Malting House School; CHAPTER SEVEN: Resurfacing; CHAPTER EIGHT: Settled on the couch; CHAPTER NINE: The wisdom of Ursula Wise; CHAPTER TEN: Teaching the teachers; CHAPTER ELEVEN: Psycho-analysis in the 1930's: building up to war; CHAPTER TWELVE: Battling for the minds of children

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Legacies REFERENCES/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sommario/riassunto

This biography provides a critical account of the life and work of Susan Isaacs (1885-1948). This educationist, a pioneer of child-centred education in Britain was also an early and historically important child psychoanalyst. She is described in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as the greatest influence on British education in the twentieth century. Yet she is virtually unknown in both educational and



psychoanalytic circles. When Melanie Klein was threatened with expulsion from the British Psychoanalytic Society she was by far her most powerful advocate and thus played a major role