arship.

Peter Wilson, outlining his

personal journey from indi-
vidual child psychotherapist to leader
of lobbying organizations, tells a
lovely
anecdote about Anna Freud’s response
to his statement that he was leaving
work at the Anna Freud Centre to take
her ideas elsewhere, to be a
‘missionary’:
‘“I think you ought to know that
missionaries very often get eaten”’ (p.
357).
This glimpse of Anna Freud’s own
voice, her dry wit, is captured again,
fleet-
ingly, in Part IV where alumnae and
previous staff (often the same in an
institution where trainees were
frequently employed after graduation)
offer
remembrances of various sorts. In one
way it was delightful to have these
personal reminiscences bring the
human dimension more to the fore. In
another
way it felt de trop at the end of a long
book, and at times even indulgent,
offering
an opportunity to people to be
involved in something that clearly
mattered to
them but not necessarily adding much
for the less involved reader.
Indeed this again brings up the
question of the imagined audience.
The
breadth of the audience, which at
times seemed like a weakness, was
also
experienced as a strength in that this is
a book that can appeal to readers at
very
different levels. It will be valued by
those who have had a close
involvement
with the Anna Freudian tradition,
while it will be of interest to those
who have
perhaps been sadly unaware of the
range and importance of her
contribution
not only to child analysis in particular,
but also to thinking about the
emotional
needs of children and families in
general.
Janine Sternberg
The Portman Clinic, Tavistock &
Portman NHE Foundation Trust
8 Fitzjohns Avenue, London NW3
5NA
[jsternberg@tavi-port.nhs.uk]
Reference
Zaphiriou Woods, M. & Pretorious, I.-M.
(eds) (2010) Parents and Toddlers in
Groups:
A Psychoanalytic Developmental
Approach. London: Routledge.
䊐
The Course of Life: A 1979
Lecture
by Anna Freud. DVD,
Caversham
Productions, 2011; £9.99.
It is now 30 years since Anna Freud
died, and the question of her place in
the
history of psychoanalysis – and of the
ongoing influence of her work on our
field
– is still uncertain. Robert Wallerstein
(1984, p. 66) once described her 1936
book, The Ego and the Mechanisms of
Defence, as ‘perhaps the single most
widely read book in our professional
literature’, even including the works
of her
father. But her writings are not widely
referenced by contemporary
psychoana-
lytic practitioners, and her influence
on training (especially in the UK,
where the
Anna Freud Centre child
psychotherapy training closed in
2009) has decreased
noticeably.
The chance to re-evaluate Anna
Freud’s ideas is therefore a welcome
one;
and the opportunity to see her actually
delivering a lecture in the library at
arship. Peter Wilson, outlining his
personal journey from indi-
vidual child psychotherapist to leader
of lobbying organizations, tells a
lovely
anecdote about Anna Freud’s response
to his statement that he was leaving
work at the Anna Freud Centre to take
her ideas elsewhere, to be a
‘missionary’:
‘“I think you ought to know that
missionaries very often get eaten”’ (p.
357).
This glimpse of Anna Freud’s own
voice, her dry wit, is captured again,
fleet-
ingly, in Part IV where alumnae and
previous staff (often the same in an
institution where trainees were
frequently employed after graduation)
offer
remembrances of various sorts. In one
way it was delightful to have these
personal reminiscences bring the
human dimension more to the fore. In
another
way it felt de trop at the end of a long
book, and at times even indulgent,
offering
an opportunity to people to be
involved in something that clearly
mattered to
them but not necessarily adding much
for the less involved reader.
Indeed this again brings up the
question of the imagined audience.
The
breadth of the audience, which at
times seemed like a weakness, was
also
experienced as a strength in that this is
a book that can appeal to readers at
very
different levels. It will be valued by
those who have had a close
involvement
with the Anna Freudian tradition,
while it will be of interest to those
who have
perhaps been sadly unaware of the
range and importance of her
contribution
not only to child analysis in particular,
but also to thinking about the
emotional
needs of children and families in
general.
Janine Sternberg
The Portman Clinic, Tavistock &
Portman NHE Foundation Trust
8 Fitzjohns Avenue, London NW3
5NA
[jsternberg@tavi-port.nhs.uk]
Reference
Zaphiriou Woods, M. & Pretorious, I.-M.
(eds) (2010) Parents and Toddlers in
Groups:
A Psychoanalytic Developmental
Approach. London: Routledge.
䊐
The Course of Life: A 1979
Lecture
by Anna Freud. DVD,
Caversham
Productions, 2011; £9.99.
It is now 30 years since Anna Freud
died, and the question of her place in
the
history of psychoanalysis – and of the
ongoing influence of her work on our
field
– is still uncertain. Robert Wallerstein
(1984, p. 66) once described her 1936
book, The Ego and the Mechanisms of
Defence, as ‘perhaps the single most
widely read book in our professional
literature’, even including the works
of her
father. But her writings are not widely
referenced by contemporary
psychoana-
lytic practitioners, and her influence
on training (especially in the UK,
where the
Anna Freud Centre child
psychotherapy training closed in
2009) has decreased
noticeably.
The chance to re-evaluate Anna
Freud’s ideas is therefore a welcome
one;
and the opportunity to see her actually
delivering a lecture in the library at
arship. Peter Wilson, outlining his
personal journey from indi-
vidual child psychotherapist to leader
of lobbying organizations, tells a
lovely
anecdote about Anna Freud’s response
to his statement that he was leaving
work at the Anna Freud Centre to take
her ideas elsewhere, to be a
‘missionary’:
‘“I think you ought to know that
missionaries very often get eaten”’ (p.
357).
This glimpse of Anna Freud’s own
voice, her dry wit, is captured again,
fleet-
ingly, in Part IV where alumnae and
previous staff (often the same in an
institution where trainees were
frequently employed after graduation)
offer
remembrances of various sorts. In one
way it was delightful to have these
personal reminiscences bring the
human dimension more to the fore. In
another
way it felt de trop at the end of a long
book, and at times even indulgent,
offering
an opportunity to people to be
involved in something that clearly
mattered to
them but not necessarily adding much
for the less involved reader.
Indeed this again brings up the
question of the imagined audience.
The
breadth of the audience, which at
times seemed like a weakness, was
also
experienced as a strength in that this is
a book that can appeal to readers at
very
different levels. It will be valued by
those who have had a close
involvement
with the Anna Freudian tradition,
while it will be of interest to those
who have
perhaps been sadly unaware of the
range and importance of her
contribution
not only to child analysis in particular,
but also to thinking about the
emotional
needs of children and families in
general.
Janine Sternberg
The Portman Clinic, Tavistock &
Portman NHE Foundation Trust
8 Fitzjohns Avenue, London NW3
5NA
[jsternberg@tavi-port.nhs.uk]
Reference
Zaphiriou Woods, M. & Pretorious, I.-M.
(eds) (2010) Parents and Toddlers in
Groups:
A Psychoanalytic Developmental
Approach. London: Routledge.
䊐
The Course of Life: A 1979
Lecture
by Anna Freud. DVD,
Caversham
Productions, 2011; £9.99.
It is now 30 years since Anna Freud
died, and the question of her place in
the
history of psychoanalysis – and of the
ongoing influence of her work on our
field
– is still uncertain. Robert Wallerstein
(1984, p. 66) once described her 1936
book, The Ego and the Mechanisms of
Defence, as ‘perhaps the single most
widely read book in our professional
literature’, even including the works
of her
father. But her writings are not widely
referenced by contemporary
psychoana-
lytic practitioners, and her influence
on training (especially in the UK,
where the
Anna Freud Centre child
psychotherapy training closed in
2009) has decreased
noticeably.
The chance to re-evaluate Anna
Freud’s ideas is therefore a welcome
one;
and the opportunity to see her actually
delivering a lecture in the library at
a sense of scholarship. Peter Wilson,
outlining his personal journey from
indi-
vidual child psychotherapist to leader
of lobbying organizations, tells a
lovely
anecdote about Anna Freud’s response
to his statement that he was leaving
work at the Anna Freud Centre to take
her ideas elsewhere, to be a
‘missionary’:
‘“I think you ought to know that
missionaries very often get eaten”’ (p.
357).
This glimpse of Anna Freud’s own
voice, her dry wit, is captured again,
fleet-
ingly, in Part IV where alumnae and
previous staff (often the same in an
institution where trainees were
frequently employed after graduation)
offer
remembrances of various sorts. In one
way it was delightful to have these
personal reminiscences bring the
human dimension more to the fore. In
another
way it felt de trop at the end of a long
book, and at times even indulgent,
offering
an opportunity to people to be
involved in something that clearly
mattered to
them but not necessarily adding much
for the less involved reader.
Indeed this again brings up the
question of the imagined audience.
The
breadth of the audience, which at
times seemed like a weakness, was
also
experienced as a strength in that this is
a book that can appeal to readers at
very
different levels. It will be valued by
those who have had a close
involvement
with the Anna Freudian tradition,
while it will be of interest to those
who have
perhaps been sadly unaware of the
range and importance of her
contribution
not only to child analysis in particular,
but also to thinking about the
emotional
needs of children and families in
genera
a sense of scholarship. Peter Wilson,
outlining his personal journey from
indi-
vidual child psychotherapist to leader
of lobbying organizations, tells a
lovely
anecdote about Anna Freud’s response
to his statement that he was leaving
work at the Anna Freud Centre to take
her ideas elsewhere, to be a
‘missionary’:
‘“I think you ought to know that
missionaries very often get eaten”’ (p.
357).
This glimpse of Anna Freud’s own
voice, her dry wit, is captured again,
fleet-
ingly, in Part IV where alumnae and
previous staff (often the same in an
institution where trainees were
frequently employed after graduation)
offer
remembrances of various sorts. In one
way it was delightful to have these
personal reminiscences bring the
human dimension more to the fore. In
another
way it felt de trop at the end of a long
book, and at times even indulgent,
offering
an opportunity to people to be
involved in something that clearly
mattered to
them but not necessarily adding much
for the less involved reader.
Indeed this again brings up the
question of the imagined audience.
The
breadth of the audience, which at
times seemed like a weakness, was
also
experienced as a strength in that this is
a book that can appeal to readers at
very
different levels. It will be valued by
those who have had a close
involvement
with the Anna Freudian tradition,
while it will be of interest to those
who have
perhaps been sadly unaware of the
range and importance of her
contribution
not only to child analysis in particular,
but also to thinking about the
emotional
needs of children and families in
genera
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