Anna Freud

14.1k citations
145 papers · 6.6k · 3 hit papers · h-index 36

Impact in

    • Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology
    • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
    • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
    • Child Therapy and Development
    • Child Abuse and Trauma

Papers in

    • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications 38
    • Child Therapy and Development 15
    • Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research 8
    • Psychology and Mental Health 7
    • Psychological Treatments and Disorders 6
    • Psychoanalysis and Social Critique 12

Anna Freud

127 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Anna Freud's Hit Papers

Beyond the Best Interests of the Child 1974 · 659 citations
6590+23+47Years since publication2505007501000

Peers

Anna Freud
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  • General Psychology 407
  • Clinical Psychology 3.7k
  • Safety Research 602
  • Social Psychology 1.0k
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology 470
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Anna Freud, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child
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19551012
2
Beyond the Best Interests of the Child
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1974659
3
Adolescence
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1958420
4
Normality and Pathology in Childhood: Assessments of Development
1966308
5
War and children
1973260
6
Infants without Families
1965247
7 1951239
8 1952223
9 1981195
10 1974193
11 2018153
12 1963150
13 1961149
14
The writings of Anna Freud
1967133
15 1956132
16 1973127
17 1960105
18 195476
19
Das Ich und die Abwehrmechanismen
201375
20
The analysis of defense : The ego and the mechanisms of defense revisited
198563

About Anna Freud

Anna Freud is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Cultural Studies, General Psychology, Social Psychology and Sociology and Political Science, having authored 145 papers that have together received 6.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (38 papers), Child Therapy and Development (15 papers), Psychoanalysis and Social Critique (12 papers), Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (12 papers), Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research (8 papers), Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy (7 papers), Psychology and Mental Health (7 papers) and Psychological Treatments and Disorders (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in General Psychology (407 citations), Clinical Psychology (3.7k citations), Safety Research (602 citations), Social Psychology (1.0k citations) and Developmental and Educational Psychology (470 citations). Anna Freud has collaborated with scholars based in Germany. Frequent co-authors include Ruth S. Eissler, Robert F. Winch, Dorothy Burlingham, Albert J. Solnit, Joseph Goldstein, Peter L. Strauss, Sigmund Freud, Marianne Kris, Marie Bonaparte and Joseph Sandler. Their work appears in journals such as The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, The British Journal of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics and American Behavioral Scientist.

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