Psycho-Analysis for Teachers and Parents [Paperback]

Written in clear, accessible terms, the book outlines the basic findings of psychoanalysis and their implications for the understanding, care, and education of young children. Titles of the lectures are Infantile Amnesia and the Oedipus Complex; The Infantile Instinct-Life; The Latency Period; and The Relation Between Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy.In convincing, original and simple language, which may be enjoyed by every reader whatever the range of his analytical experience, the cornerstones of analytic knowledge are described in their everyday aspects.The clearest setting forth of the fundamental principles of psychoanalysis that the reviewer has seen. An admirable presentation.The four lectures that comprise this book were given before theteachers at the Children's Centers in Vienna by Anna Freud, thedaughter of Sigmund Freud and a renowned psychoanalyst of children.