CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHOLOGY

Content on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Eating Disorders, and the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology can be found in the following subdirectories:

Golden Label Anna Freud

EMOTIONAL AND PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT

Psychoanalysis for Non-Psychoanalysts. Affective Development of the Child: 6). Anna Freud: Defense Mechanisms

Joaquín Díaz Atienza Ana Freud was Sigmund Freud's daughter and dedicated her entire professional and scientific life to child psychoanalysis. In this post, we will address her two most significant contributions: the ego's defense mechanisms against anxiety…

j.Diaz-Atienza
October 10, 2025

PSYCHOANALYSIS

Ana Freud: Is child psychoanalysis possible?

Psychoanalytic intervention in childhood requires essentially pedagogical techniques. Criticisms of psychoanalytic intervention have not only been directed at its application with adults, but also, and especially, at its application in childhood. This latter approach…

j.Diaz-Atienza
12 September, 2025