ABSTRACT
In 1950, Anna Freud, the daughter of Sigmund Freud, a person—as those who know her are well aware—distinguished in her own right, first visited the United States to receive an honorary degree at Clark University. On that occasion Radcliffe College and the Department of Social Relations at Harvard were fortunate in being able to sponsor a public lecture by Miss Freud on some of the implications of psychoanalytic theory for the care of children, which has been her special field. It was under the auspices of Radcliffe College, the Department of Social Relations and the Laboratory of Human Development in Faculty of Education. The course which are about to hear was one of three major obligations which Miss Freud undertook during her visit. Miss Freud discussed the importance of the child's motivational development for the future tasks of learning in school, adjusting to the needs of other persons and developing a stable and effective pattern of life for himself.
