Quote of the day
Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
Anna Freud
Born: December 3, 1895
Died: October 9, 1982 (aged 86)
Bio: Anna Freud was an Austrian-British psychoanalyst. She was the 6th and last child of Sigmund Freud and Martha Bernays. She followed the path of her father and contributed to the field of psychoanalysis.
Known for:
- Ego and the mechanisms of defence (1937)
- The Harvard lectures
- War and children (1943)
- Beyond the Best Interests of the Child (1973)
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