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Anna Freud

1895 - 1982

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Anna Freud CBE ( FROYD; Austrian German: [ˈana ˈfrɔʏd]; 3 December 1895 – 9 October 1982) was a British psychoanalyst of Austrian Jewish descent. She was born in Vienna, the sixth and youngest child of Sigmund Freud and Martha Bernays. She followed the path of her father and contributed to the field of psychoanalysis. Alongside Hermine Hug-Hellmuth and Melanie Klein, she may be considered the founder of psychoanalytic child psychology. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anna Freud is the 17th most popular psychologist (up from 24th in 2019), the 74th most popular biography from Austria (up from 80th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Austrian Psychologist.

Anna Freud was a psychoanalyst and daughter of Sigmund Freud. She is most famous for her theories on the ego, the id, and the superego.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Anna Freud ranks 17 out of 235. Before her are Erik Erikson, John Dewey, William James, Carl Rogers, Gustave Le Bon, and Albert Bandura. After her are Kurt Lewin, Jordan Peterson, John B. Watson, Daniel Kahneman, Irvin D. Yalom, and B. F. Skinner.

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Among people born in 1895, Anna Freud ranks 10. Before her are Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Juan Perón, Buckminster Fuller, Carl Orff, and Buster Keaton. After her are Ernst Jünger, Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Nikolai Yezhov, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Richard Sorge. Among people deceased in 1982, Anna Freud ranks 10. Before her are Ayn Rand, Romy Schneider, Ingrid Bergman, Philip Noel-Baker, Henry Fonda, and Carl Orff. After her are Roman Jakobson, Arthur Rubinstein, Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Khalid of Saudi Arabia, Philip K. Dick, and William Giauque.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Anna Freud ranks 74 out of 1,424. Before her are Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903), Victor Francis Hess (1883), Archduke Otto of Austria (1865), Martin Buber (1878), Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (1865), and Kurt Waldheim (1918). After her are Fritz Pregl (1869), Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888), Elfriede Jelinek (1946), Peter Handke (1942), Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1906), and Alban Berg (1885).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Austria

Among psychologists born in Austria, Anna Freud ranks 3. Before her are Alfred Adler (1870), and Viktor Frankl (1905). After her are Melanie Klein (1882), Bruno Bettelheim (1903), Otto Rank (1884), Paul Watzlawick (1921), Otto Gross (1877), Heinz Kohut (1913), René Spitz (1887), Otto F. Kernberg (1928), and Walter Mischel (1930).

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