Anna Freud, child psychoanalysis founder, celebrated in Google doodle

Sigmund Freud’s daughter studied emotional difficulties in children after family fled to London before second world war

Google’s latest doodle celebrates the birthday of Anna Freud, daughter of Sigmund Freud and a celebrated psychoanalyst in her own right, who is regarded as one of the founders of psychoanalytic child psychology.

Born in Vienna in 1895, the sixth and last child in the family, her immersion in her father’s work began at the age of 13, when she began participating in his weekly discussions on psychoanalytic ideas.

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