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Anna Freud: A Biography

Anna Freud: A Biography

Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth

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ISBN10: 0300140231
ISBN13: 9780300140231
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Sep 1 2008
Pages: 576
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

This edition of Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's definitive biography of pioneering child analyst Anna Freud includesamong other new featuresa 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 LondonPraise 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 AtlasElisabeth 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.

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