Anna Freud Tradition

Joan Raphael-Leff, PhD, psychoanalyst (fellow, British Psychoanalytical Society) and social psychologist, leads the UCL/Anna Freud Centre academic faculty for psychoanalytic research. Previously, she was head of University College London's MSc in Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychology, and professor of psychoanalysis at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. For 35 years she has specialized in emotional issues of reproduction and early parenting, with more than 100 single-author peer-reviewed publications, and twelve books. Founder and first international chair of COWAP (IPA's Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis) in 1998, she provides training for practitioners working with teenage parents, and is consultant to perinatal and women's projects in many high and low income countries.

'This excellent volume presents an extraordinary view of the living contributions of Anna Freud and of the Anna Freud Centre. A most interesting group of recollections in the first section sets the stage for a dozen rich, vivid case reports of present-day child and adolescent psychoanalysis that create a powerful demonstration of the Anna Freud Tradition. Their clinical immediacy and their clarity of explanation form a considerable part of that tradition. A number of additional, elegant accounts of clinical applications round out the picture of Anna Freud's continuing influence on the treatment of children. A marvellous book that will reward close reading.'- Anton O. Kris, MD, Training and Supervising Analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School'This book puts the spotlight on Miss Freud's ongoing legacy. A chorus of voices from seven decades in Hampstead chronicle her achievements in the past and demonstrate her influence in the Anna Freud Centre of the present. May these pages lead to a revival of interest and appreciation for the richness and depth of the Anna Freud tradition! - Dr Denia Barrett, President of the Association for Child Psychoanalysis, USA 'This impressive volume conveys both the breadth and depth of psychological work with children and adolescents undertaken over the years by the members of the Anna Freud Centre. It combines scholarly research with lively clinical discussion, maintaining throughout an awareness of the political, social, and community contexts within which their work takes place. This book illustrates how new developments are nurtured and grow from a well-established tradition in child psychoanalysis and developmental research.'- Dr Louise Emanuel, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Department of Children and Families, Tavistock Clinic, LondonRead the Wikipedia entry for Anna Freud here

• Series Editors’ Foreword -- Preface -- Prologue -- Anna Freud: Her Work and Legacy -- Overview -- The Anna Freud Centre today -- Anna Freud: the teacher, the clinician, the person -- Historical Framework -- Anna Freud and her collaborators in the early post-war period -- From the Hampstead War Nurseries to the Anna Freud Centre -- The Diagnostic Profile: an invaluable clinical tool -- Contemporary Issues -- Anna Freud’s influence on contemporary thinking about the child -- The clinical training: 1947–2009—commemorating a tradition -- Clinical Work and Applications of Anna Freud’s Developmental Tradition -- Infancy -- Overview -- Overview of theoretical and clinical applications, and current developments -- Observation -- Aggression in relation to emotional development: an observation of an infant and his family in the first two years of life -- Intervention -- Parent–infant psychotherapy: a new “real” relationship—“finding a way to be together” -- Applications -- “Silent scream”—work with a traumatized immigrant mother and her infant with a severe neurological disorder -- Under Fives -- Overview -- Overview of theoretical and clinical applications, and current developments -- Clinical -- “Learning to love”—a story about a young girl’s analysis -- “A long journey from catastrophe to safety”—the analysis of a violent boy -- Applications -- A depressed toddler and his mother reunite in the toddler group -- Outreach -- “Anna Freud in Africa”—Ububele in Alexandra township, Johannesburg -- Latency -- Overview of theoretical and clinical applications, and current developments -- Clinical -- “Finding the strength to say hello”—issues of male identification and separation/individuation in a two-year intensive psychotherapy -- “With great power comes great responsibility”—a new object experience and finding space to be a boy: analysis of a six year old -- “The robot, the gangster, and the schoolboy”—intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy with Luis, a latency boy in search of a father -- Outreach -- Child psychoanalysis in schools—an Anna Freudian tradition -- Adolescence -- Overview -- Overview of transitions, clinical application, current developments -- Clinical -- “Desperately seeking a mother”—female adolescence and the uses of the body -- “The terrorist and the boffin”—a two-year intensive psychotherapy with a thirteen-year-old boy -- “Speaking with silence and tears”—psychotherapy with an adolescent girl -- Outreach -- “Adolescence as a Second Chance”—AFC training for practitioners working with pregnant teenagers and young parents and their children -- Specialized Work in the Anna Freudian Tradition: Past, Current, and Future -- “In the best interest of the child”—the pioneering work of Anna Freud in the field of children and the law, and the court assessment project at the Anna Freud Centre -- Anna Freud and her contribution to the field of paediatric psychology -- “From dependency to emotional self-reliance”— the Anna Freud Centre parent–toddler group model -- “Clinician to campaigner”—fate of a missionary -- Personal and Theoretical Reflections from Clinicians Trained at the Anna Freud Centre -- Altruistic analysis -- Specifically Anna Freudian -- Two supervisors -- Anna Freud: memories and the climate of experience’ -- Reflections of a child psychotherapy trainee -- Fighting thoughtfully for independence -- The Anna Freud Centre Colloquium -- Biographical cameos 1