Little is known of Anna Freud, the greatest living child psychoanalyst, for she has deliberately sought anonymity. By reading the biographies and letters of her father Sigmund Freud and what little appears in other writings about her, the author makes inferences as to why Anna has chosen to shun public attention.
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