Question

Imagine that you have traveled back in time to interview one of the theorists who followed Freud (Anna Freud, Klein, Kohut, Jung, Adler, or Horney). If you asked this person the question, “Tell me how your approach and your understanding of human nature differs from that of Sigmund Freud”, how do you think they would respond? Tell us who you interviewed and give us their answer. For example, “My name is Anna Freud and I differed from my father in the following ways…” Then, make up one question of your own for this interviewee and give us their answer.

Answer 1

Answer. ANNA FREUD

1. I became one of the world's foremost psychoanalysts. I am also recognized as the founder of child psychoanalysis, despite the fact that my father Sigmund Freud , often suggested that children could not be psychoanalyzed, I challenged his belief .

Also , I expanded on my father's work and identified many different types of defense mechanisms that the ego uses to protect itself from anxiety. I have provided the clearest and most comprehensive look at mechanisms of defense in my book The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense (1936). Many of these defense mechanisms like denial can be used in refuslr daily lives .

Question 2. Could you please describe your career till now ?

Answer.)

After completing my higer education I worked as an elementary school teacher and began translating Some of my father's works into German, which to led to my increased interest in child psychology and psychoanalysis.

Although I never earned a higher degree, my work in psychoanalysis and child psychology contributed to my eminence in the field of psychology. I began my children's psychoanalytic practice in 1923 in Vienna, Austria and later served as chair of the Vienna Psycho-Analytic Society.

In the year 1938, I was interrogated by the Gestapo and then I went to London along with my father, Sigmund Freud. In the year 1941, I formed the Hampstead Nursery with Burlingham. The nursery served as a psychoanalytic program and home for homeless children.

My experiences at the nursery gave me inspiration to write three books, Young Children in Wartime (1942), Infants Without Families (1943), and War and Children (1943).

After the Hampstead Nursery was closed in the year 1945, I created the Hampstead Child Therapy Course and Clinic and served as the director from 1952 .