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| Anna Freud (3 December 1895 – 9 October 1982) was the sixth
and last child of Sigmund and Martha Freud. Born in Vienna, she
followed the path of her father and contributed to the newly
born field of psychoanalysis. Alongside Melanie Klein, she may
be considered the founder of psychoanalytic child psychology: as
her father put it, child analysis 'had received a powerful
impetus through "the work of Frau Melanie Klein and of my
daughter, Anna Freud"'. Compared to her father, her work
emphasized the importance of the ego and its ability to be
trained socially. The Vienna yearsEdit Anna Freud appears to
have had a comparatively unhappy childhood, in which she 'never
made a close or pleasureable relationship with her mother, and
was really nurtured by their Catholic nurse Josephine'. She had
difficulties getting along with her siblings, specifically with
her sister Sophie Freud (as well as