Anna Freud
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Anna Freud 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 con
Freud in 1957
Anna Freud with her father Sigmund Freud in 1913
Anna Freud's London home, now dedicated to the life and work of her father as the Freud Museum
Blue plaque for Freud at 20 Maresfield Gardens
The British Psychoanalytical Society was founded by Ernest Jones as the London Psychoanalytical Society on 30 October 1913. It is one of several organisations in Britain training psychoanalysts.
Freud and the members of the Inner Circle, including Ernest Jones.
Sigmund Freud fled Austria in 1938, settling in Hampstead, London. He never formally joined the society, but his close friendship with Ernest Jones, and the sudden influx of continental analysts due to the rise of the Nazi Party, meant that the status of the society was greatly enhanced during the Interwar period.
James Strachey, one of the leaders of the scientific committee
William Leslie Mackenzie, a founding member of the Society.