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ANNA FREUD'S DEATH CAME AS NO SURPRISE. YET IT IS DIFFIcult to believe she is dead. To the end she was young in spirit and mind. Even following the series of hospitalizations that began in the winter of 1982, she continued to be actively and vigorously involved in work on our third book—this time with Sonja Goldstein joining her collaboration with Albert Solnit and myself. In and out of the hospital Anna Freud worked with us regularly. During our 6 months in London in 1982, hardly a weekly work session closed without her breaking a logjam in our thinking by her spelling out precisely what needed to be done.
Anna Freud was a wonderful person—wonderful in so many different ways and settings. I shall talk about the Anna Freud I knew and worked with—about Anna Freud the law teacher—to add to the Anna Freud her analytic colleagues knew. I shall say a little about several aspects of her work in law—about how she responded to Yale's invitation that she be a Lecturer in Law, about her contribution to the life of the Law School, and finally something about how together we wrote about children and the law. And, I also wish to capture, without intruding on the privacy she cherished, something about her sense of humor and playfulness—something about a conscience that demanded hard work but allowed time away from our joint enterprise to enjoy with us good food, good theater, sightseeing, and small talk.