Psycho-Analysis for Teachers and Parents - Paperback

by Anna Freud (Author), Barbara Low (Translator)

Written in clear, accessible terms, the book outlines the basic findings of psychoanalysis and their implications for the understanding, care, and education of young children. Titles of the lectures are Infantile Amnesia and the Oedipus Complex; The Infantile Instinct-Life; The Latency Period; and The Relation Between Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy.

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The four lectures that comprise this book were given before the teachers at the Children's Centers in Vienna by Anna Freud, the daughter of Sigmund Freud and a renowned psychoanalyst of children. Written in clear, accessible terms, this book outlines the basic findings of psychoanalysis and their implications for the understanding, care, and education of young children.