Anna Freud (1895-1982) was an Austrian-British psychoanalyst, the youngest child of Sigmund Freud, who pioneered child psychoanalysis and founded ego psychology with her 1936 study of the ego's defense mechanisms, shifting psychoanalytic attention from the unconscious id toward the ego's active, adaptive functions.
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BirthplaceVienna, Austria-Hungary 1 Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionFounded ego psychology and pioneered child psychoanalysis, publishing The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence in 1936 to establish how the ego protects itself from psychological distress through a set of characteristic defenses. 1 Notable WorkThe Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence (1936) 1 Connections
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Source Wikipedia: Ego Psychology
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Following Sigmund Freud, the psychoanalysts most responsible for the development of ego psychology, and its systematization as a formal school of psychoanalytic thought, were Anna Freud, Heinz Hartmann, and David Rapaport.
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