Anna Freud : a biography / / by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910965292803321
• Autore: Young-Bruehl Elisabeth
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Haven, CT. ; ; London, : Yale University Press, 2008
• ISBN: 1-282-08936-6; 9786612089367; 0-300-14271-4
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (416 p.)
• Disciplina: 618.92890092; B
• Soggetti: Women psychoanalysts - Austria; Psychoanalysts - Austria; Child psychotherapists - Austria; Child analysis - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND NOTES ON SOURCES -- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION -- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION -- 1. Annerl -- 2. In Times of War and Death -- 3. Being Analyzed -- 4. Psychoanalysis and Politics -- 5. Mechanisms of Defense -- 6. Another Life -- 7. On Losing and Being Lost -- 8. Creativity and Science -- 9. The Director -- 10. In the Face of Enemy Forces -- 11. Future and Past -- Postscript -- Appendix: Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlingham at Hempstead: The Origins of Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Observation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Bibliography to the Second Edition -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This edition of Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's definitive biography of pioneering child analyst Anna Freud includes-among other new features-a major retrospective introduction by the author. Praise for the Second Edition:"Young-Bruehl's description of one of the most complex but brilliant lights in psychoanalytic history has stood as a beacon to students of psychoanalytic history. It is the best most carefully crafted biography of any psychoanalyst and it illuminates the entire tradition with a clarity that only the exploration of the life of the ; daughter of the founder of the movement could possibly provide. It is a beautifully written insightful and remarkably edifying piece of work. The best has just got better."-- Peter Fonagy, Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis, University College London Praise for the First Edition:"A gem of biographical writing. . . ."-Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune "Lucid, erudite, briskly authoritative, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl . . . has given us the insight into character that makes biography an art."-James Atlas Elisabeth Young-Bruehl is a faculty member at the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and a practicing psychoanalyst in Manhattan. She lives in New York and Toronto.