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TO WRITE A PROPER SCIENTIFIC APPRECIATION OF THE CAREER of Anna Freud is a daunting task. It is much lightened, however, by the fact that I share it with colleagues who between them encompass an overview of Anna Freud's monumental and pioneering contributions toward the creation of child analysis as a proudly distinctive discipline, though she in her own paper honoring Heinz Hartmann discreetly called herself only the representative of "one brand of child analysis" (1966a, p. 207). All of that vast arena and its cognate areas are covered by the preceding presentations, as are Anna Freud's ever-widening arc of applications of those contributions to all the relevant fields of family law, pedagogy, child rearing, residential care, child development, and developmental psychology, a seemingly unending vista.
My own task, to discuss Anna Freud's contributions to adult analysis or to analysis in general, seems by contrast far more circumscribed. Looking through the 8 volumes of The Writings of Anna Freud which span the six decades from 1922 to 1980, I