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Paulina F. Kernberg (review date October 1994)

SOURCE: "A Child Analyst for All Seasons: Anna Freud," in Contemporary Psychology, Vol. 39, No. 10, October 1994, p. 946.

[The following review briefly evaluates Coles' biography of Anna Freud and compares it to another work on the subject.]

In this work, Robert Coles has undertaken to write about his experience with Anna Freud and about Anna Freud. With a sense of timing and tact, Coles sketches Anna Freud's life and work as a series of developmental profiles.

Parallels occur in the structure of this book; namely, as Anna Freud formulated her developmental lines so did Coles formulate Anna Freud's biography in various lines of development: her life with children, the teacher, the theorist, the healer, the leader, the idealist, and the writer.

She would have been 99 years old in 1994; she was 31 when she became a child analyst, and she was 40 years of age when she wrote the...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. Melvin J. Friedman (review date Fall 1982)
   2. Neil Postman (review date 19 January 1986)
   3. Katherine Paterson (review date 2 February 1986)
   4. Jonathan Kellerman (review date 9 February 1986)
   5. New Yorker (review date 10 February 1986)
   6. John Leo (review date 17 March 1986)
   7. Kenneth L. Woodward (review date 6 September 1987)
   8. Jeff Dietrich (review date 13 September 1987)
   9. Fitzhugh Mullan (review date 8 May 1988)
   10. Helen Bevington (review date 26 February 1989)
   11. Francis X. Rocca (review date March 1989)
   12. Iain Bamforth (review date 7-13 July 1989)
   13. Sanford Pinsker (essay date Summer 1989)
   14. Herbert Mitgang (review date 21 November 1990)
   15. Laura Sessions Stepp (review date 23 December 1990)
   16. The New Yorker (review date 7 January 1991)
   17. Virginia C. Hoch (review date 26 August-2 September 1992)
   18. A. J. S. (review date 1993)
   19. Michelle Huneven (essay date 3 October 1993)
   20. Robert A. Sirico (review date 15 November 1993)
   21. Gail Russell Chaddock (review date 9 December 1993)
   22. Ed Walraven (essay date 1994)
   23. Paulina F. Kernberg (review date October 1994)
   24. Richard Bernstein (review date 27 January 1997)
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