ABSTRACT
Anna Freud had been a teacher and was a Jewish immigrant who created a clinic filled with central European immigrants working with children in need. Ever the teacher, mindful of involving others, she was preternaturally bound and determined to bring about the discussion. Miss Freud’s dedication and single-minded devotion to clinical psychoanalysis contained a wide vision and a mission: to explore the reaches of applying psychoanalytic insight to better the lives of the children within the Clinic and well beyond—through social policy and laws, in educational and medical arenas. Such issues arose for consideration in many discussions, and opportunities to act after graduation came into focus. The whole climate of experience of Anna Freud’s Clinic endures: the good past is present; daily and variously, it inspires and affects the life for the author and for many others in many lands.
