Anna Freud began her career influenced by the theories of her father, Sigmund Freud. Far from living in her father's shadow, Anna Freud made important contributions of her own to psychology. She founded child psychoanalysis and summarized the ego's defense mechanisms in her book The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense (1936). Read more about her life, career, and influence on psychology and psychoanalysis in the following biography.

• Anna Freud Biography

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