Anna Freud delivered the lecture that is the basis for this film in the library of the Hampstead Centre in London, now the Anna Freud Centre. The year was 1979, she was 84 years old, and this was her last lecture. Both a history of child analysis and a summary of her own contribution—the framework for studying children’s growth and development that she called The Developmental Lines—the lecture is brilliant introduction to Anna Freud’s work and legacy. |
