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Peter Heller is currently a professor of German and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He was born in Vienna in 1920 and from ages 9 to 12 he was in analysis with Anna Freud. The core of this book is the collection of notes that Miss Freud made during the analysis, daily entries as well as periodic summaries of the ongoing analytic work. Appended to these are an assortment of pictures, essays, poems, and short stories written by young Peter Heller while he was in analysis. With some hesitation, Miss Freud offered these materials to Heller in 1972, and they are the focus of his study.
A preface to this collection of notes and materials is written by the psychoanalyst Rudolf Ekstein, who was a graduate