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2 unusual facts about Anna Freud


Alice Anderson

In 2011, Anderson’s practice took a new direction following her personal exhibition at the Freud Museum in London, where she worked on Anna Freud’s loom and initiated geometrical works of lines and grids in the spirit of Agnes Martin.

Donald Winnicott

Winnicott rose to prominence just as the followers of Anna Freud were battling those of Melanie Klein for the right to be called Sigmund Freud's true intellectual heirs.


John Bowlby

Bowlby was interested from the beginning of his career in the problem of separation, the wartime work of Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlingham on evacuees, and the work of Rene Spitz with orphans.

The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud

It was translated from the German under the general editorship of James Strachey, in collaboration with Anna Freud, assisted by Alix Strachey and Alan Tyson.


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Dorothy Burlingham

Her ashes rest in the Golders Green Crematorium, London, next to those of Anna Freud (who died in 1982) and others in the Freud family, including Sigmund Freud.

Stephen Fleck

Pruett, Kyle Dean and Stephen Fleck, “Familial Developmental Lines: Anna Freud's Concept of Developmental Lines and Family Dynamics,” American Academy of Child Psychiatry Annual Meeting, 1984, Toronto, Canada.