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Supporting Citation
I edited out this statement, which was flagged, "Freud is said to refer to her in his diaries more than others in the family. [citation needed]". If anyone can find a trustworthy source to affirm this, that'd be great!

Kaity Sherksnas (talk) 17:16, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

Letter
I love her quotes!

Look, there is another one, quotation from a letter, very beautiful, too:

"Dear John ..., You asked me what I consider essential personal qualities in a future psychoanalyst. The answer is comparatively simple. If you want to be a real psychoanalyst you have to have a great love of the truth, scientific truth as well as personal truth, and you have to place this appreciation of truth higher than any discomfort at meeting unpleasant facts, whether they belong to the world outside or to your own inner person.

Further, I think that a psychoanalyst should have...interests...beyond the limits of the medical field...in facts that belong to sociology, religion, literature, ,[and] history,...[otherwise]his outlook on...his patient will remain too narrow. This point contains...the necessary preparations beyond the requirements made on candidates of psychoanalysis in the institutes. You ought to be a great reader and become aquainted with the literature of many countries and cultures. In the great literary figures you will find people who know at least as much of human nature as the psychiatrists and psychologists try to do.

Does that answer your question?

Yours sincerely, Anna Freud

Austerlitz 88.72.3.87 15:38, 21 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Source for that quotation from a letter written by Anna Freud is: The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis And Bulletin of the International Psycho-Analytical Association, Volume 49 1968, Article of Heinz Kohut HEINZ KOHUT: The evaluation of applicants for psychoanalytic training Pages 548-554 [P. S.552, 553] Austerlitz 88.72.2.238 07:10, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Quotations referring to Anna Freud, taken from the book Final Analysis
written by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

Nazism and psychoanalysis
From a discussion with Sigmund Freud’s daughter:

“Terri is Jewish, she survived the Warsaw Ghetto, and I am also Jewish, and both of us have been immersed in holocaust literature. We are puzzled why so little has been written about the holocaust in psychoanalysis”. “I am puzzled by your puzzlement”, she replied immediately. “Why should psychoanalysts in particular write about the war?” “Because so many Jewish analysts are refugees from Nazism”. “But that has nothing to do with psychoanalysis”. “But doesn’t trauma play a central role in analytic theory?” Anna Freud shrugged her shoulders, apparently dismissing my concerns as uninteresting. I was deeply disappointed. Anna Freud was Jewish [...]. I tried again. “I know that your father never wrote anything about the Nazis, but he must have talked to you about it. What did he say?” She simply shrugged her shoulders, and sat silently. I could not tell if she meant that he had told her nothing, or if she did not intend to tell me anything (pages 154f).

Talking with Anna Freud
About motivation

While working at Anna Freud's house, I found an unpublished letter in which he [Freud] told Fliess, less than two weeks after he gave the paper [The Aetiology of Hysteria], "I am as isolated as you could wish me to be: the word has been given out to abandon me, and a void is forming around me." Both the immediate response to the paper, and the subsequent response were ones that Freud had not anticipated: his colleagues thought he was crazy to believe his women patients. This was bound to have a disastrous impact on a young physician with a growing family, eager to open a neurological/psychiatric clinical practice. Where were his referrals to come from, if his colleagues thought he was completely daft? I made this point to Anna Freud. "Do you believe", I said, "that this could have had anything to do with his later abandonment of the theory?" "No." She was adamant. "But tell me, Miss Freud, why did you omit this passage from your published edition of the letters?" "Because it makes my father sound so paranoid," was her response. "But if it was the truth, then he was not paranoid, he was simply perceptive." (pages 175, 176)

Help
I wanted to put the quotation of Anna Freud's letter on the mainpage and I succeeded doing so. But I also wanted to create a footnote with the source of this quotation and I didn't succeed. Even worse the rest of the page has been deleted. Can somebody please help correcting this?
 * Austerlitz 88.72.29.246 18:24, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

I managed to get the rest of the page back, but with the footnote it still does not work.
 * Austerlitz 88.72.13.86 15:37, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

It is still not like usual on wikipedia, this footnote.
 * Austerlitz 88.72.13.86 18:22, 11 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I think I've been able to fix the references technically (per WP:CITE) although I'm not convinced that the full text of the letter belongs in the article. -Fadookie Talk 02:56, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Kilburn
Somebody had put the family name (?) Kilburn to John, I deleted it. Please tell whether you know the name and where from.
 * Austerlitz 88.72.11.58 16:58, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Anna Freud Centre
Some information:
 * Homepage
 * History, from the Homepage
 * 
 * Austerlitz 88.72.31.243 10:20, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Anna Freud and I
Chapter Eight of Masson's book Final Analysis is very interesting information, it's entitled Anna Freud and I. Austerlitz 88.72.24.0 14:02, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Should also add, Anna Freud was a lifelong virgin. Her battles with Reich. Her obsession with conforming with society. Finally, the fact of the suicide and alcohol abuse deaths of her charges.

Agreed... I have just finished watching Part II of the BBC Documentary "Century of the Self." In it, Anna Freud is painted as enormously influential on a national scale in Washington DC and Hollywood, in the era of the Cold War. There was a deliberate architecture of psychology, starting with the National Mental health Act of 1946 signed by Pres. Truman, used to train a generation to conform to society, in the theory that this would strengthen the ego in the inner battle to control irrational and dangerous subconcious forces. This theory was used extensively and changed the character of american society for many years. It was only in the 1960's, with several specific events, that this architecture was seriously questioned, and then collapsed. Anna Freud was and her adherents were central to this entire construct. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Special:Contributions/ (talk)

So? Zezen (talk) 08:40, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

Extensive editing needed
The article is currently in very poor condition, and needs extensive editing... someone, please? 85.64.24.65 (talk) 15:51, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism
Someone wrote "What a twat!" Is there anyone who can remove that because I can't? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.209.19.224 (talk) 08:01, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I can't seem to find that text anywhere in the article, which part are you talking about? Also anyone can edit an article by pressing the "Edit" tab, near the top of your screen. Cheers, and welcome to wikipedia, SpitfireTally-ho! 08:05, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Looks like someone removed it then.--62.209.19.224 (talk) 12:10, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Lesbian?
Were she and Dorothy Burlingham a lesbian couple? Nietzsche 2 (talk) 04:44, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I really think, if someone says 'to their dying day' that they're not a lesbian, then they probably are not. In those days plenty of women, lived with other women but weren't gay, they just preferred female company, or never found 'the one'. I think that sentence should be removed. Unless there is glaring evidence that Anna was gay, leave that sentence OUT. I'm sure if she was alive today, you'd be done for libel:)

Veryscarymary (talk) 19:06, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I have removed the text, it is clearly POV. Mr. D. E. Mophon (talk) 09:54, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
 * According to the account in the article sourced to substantive works by Roudinesco and her principal biographer Young-Breuhl there is no reason to dispute Anna Freud’s claim that she was not in a sexual relationship with Dorothy Burlingham. On this basis and given the consensus here I have reverted repeated edits by Totocugno which continue to describe her as a lesbian citing unreliable sources from France (describing her as a self-hating homophobic homosexual) which have not been deemed noteworthy enough to merit translation into English.  Almanacer (talk) 19:12, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Most people would want to be guided by an official biography like Young-Bruehl (2008). She deals with the matter on page 138. 86.187.225.105 (talk) 16:03, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
 * i cite reliable sources ! --T0t0 Cugn0 (talk) 23:58, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Talking about main sources to allow oneself to refuse sources because of their nationality is neither neutral nor encyclopedic! There are academicworks in English presenting the same perspectives (describing her as a lesbian ""self-hating homophobic homosexual"" etc), what reasons will you find for refusing them ? --T0t0 Cugn0 (talk) 13:36, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

Homophobia
I plan to re-introduce the sources about théoretical homophobia of psychoanalitic mouvement (IPA) and especially lesbiannisme and paradoxical homophobia of anna freud.--G de gonjasufi (talk) 12:54, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Journalist Matthew Campbell reports that according to Roudinesco, she was accused, like other followers of Freud, of homophobia. Albert Ledorze thinks that unlike her father, Anna Freud, who is nevertheless a lesbian, is convinced that homosexuality is a "perversion " or a " disease ”; she opposes the exercise of psychoanalysis by homosexuals.

--T0t0 Cugn0 (talk) 01:07, 1 July 2023 (UTC)


 * It is unarguably the case that the IPA was during the last century discriminatory in barring homosexuals from training as candidates and that most IPA analysts, Anna Freud included, viewed homosexuality as a sexual pathology. That, however, was a matter of clinical judgement and does not justify the claim made against her of personal homophobia which implies a pathological hostility for which there is no evidence notwithstanding a great deal of rumour-mongering especially in French circles where there is a history of fractious conflict with the IPA over a wide range of issues. The Young-Bruehl biography notes that she came to believe homosexuality should not necessarily be a bar to training as an analyst (p. 325). Almanacer (talk) 09:12, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
 * the facts of Anna Freud are sourced and the sources (not only french) go in this direction ! --T0t0 Cugn0 (talk) 10:19, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Academic sources even mock Young-Bruehl on this specific point (and others). --T0t0 Cugn0 (talk) 10:21, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Where reliable English language sources from Freud specialists are contradicted by French sources from authors whose speculations have not been deemed worthy of translation, the latter do not merit inclusion in the article. Almanacer (talk) 20:15, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

Here you state your wrong thinking about sources. You do not prove that these are sources of non-specialists and moreover you differ from sources in English (of specialists). Your personal opinion is not an argument or proof... --T0t0 Cugn0 (talk) 19:28, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Agree with Almanacer's argument above. There is no justification for describing Anna as personally homophobic. Harold the Sheep (talk) 23:05, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Here, we do encyclopedic work. Our personal opinions are irrelevant. Sources analyze the fact that she was homophobic. Facts.--T0t0 Cugn0 (talk) 08:14, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I agree with Harold the Sheep that your sources are not reliable.  The opinion I have expressed is that there is no reliably sourced documentation to justify the accusation of personal homophobia by Anna Freud - that's not an opinion about whether she was or not.  Almanacer (talk) 20:00, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
 * You don't have an argument, you just express your unfounded opinion. There are several sources. --T0t0 Cugn0 (talk) 09:00, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

A very poor article
A major figure such as Anna Freud deserves a much better article than this unsourced and badly written rubbish. Intelligent Mr Toad (talk) 11:41, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Agreed! If I wasn't mired in my own psychiatric residency, I'd tackle the rewrite myself. The grammar and sentence construction is abominable. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.102.215.104 (talk) 00:25, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

This is poor. indeed. Alas, can anyone write about the founders of psychoanalysis without psychoanalyzing everything they did? I agree this is rubbish, but the topic lends itself to such. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dychejs (talk • contribs) 00:26, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Anna Freud
Anna Freud has offered a Child Therapy Training Programm in Hampstead following World War II, Erna Furman has been a graduate of this programm. There has been another programm at Tavistock.
 * --88.72.15.53 (talk) 10:58, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

Reference to "The Jewish 100"
I have no idea why the book was listed under several authors. The bibliography data page of this book seen in Google Books clearly shows a single author. Bar-abban (talk) 22:57, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Some information on Alice Goldberger
To be used for the article:
 * http://www.rh7.org/factsheets/Holocaust.html
 * http://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=bafc.009.0313a
 * http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/Assets/Docs/newsletter/WLN%20Summer%2009.pdf
 * http://www.springerlink.com/content/g0377k4352205581/
 * http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/28/a1955928.shtml
 * --88.75.79.48 (talk) 18:43, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Publications not mentioned yet

 * http://www.pep-web.org/search.php?author=%22Friedmann%2C+M.%22&PHPSESSID=ptsvj9rnrosgnssog30vl0ov00
 * --88.75.79.48 (talk) 19:03, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Friedmann, M. (1988). The Hampstead Clinic Nursery: The First 20 Years (1957 - 1978). Bul. Anna Freud Centre, 11:277-287.

Salo, F., Friedmann, M. (1988). The Runaway Bunny Mother: The Long-Term Influence of the Nursery School Experience. Bul. Anna Freud Centre, 11:53-73.

Friedmann, M. (1986). Alice Goldberger. Bul. Anna Freud Centre, 9:313-314
 * --88.75.79.48 (talk) 19:14, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Manna Friedmann
 * --88.75.79.48 (talk) 19:16, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

'''mentioned on the Erna Furman site: http://resources.metapress.com/pdf-preview.axd?code=g0377k4352205581&size=largest
 * --88.75.79.48 (talk) 19:29, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

'''mentioned on the Erna Furman site: http://resources.metapress.com/pdf-preview.axd?code=g0377k4352205581&size=largest
 * --88.75.79.48 (talk) 19:44, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Memory, Self and the Peer Group in Six Young Survivors of Terezin (by Stefanie Schamess)
 * --88.75.79.48 (talk) 19:44, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Bul. Anna Freud Centre: is there a list of the Bulletins existing?
 * --88.72.1.149 (talk) 11:57, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

Broken link in external references
In external references, the following link is a page that no longer contains the cited information: http://knol.google.com/k/tom-butler-bowdon/the-ego-and-the-mechanisms-of-defense/2l1paxxoh5qsf/24# — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kathon (talk • contribs) 20:57, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

British citizen?
It isn't mentioned whether or not she ever took up British citizenship or whether she, like her nephews Lucian and Clement, was ever offered a British honour. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AloysiusZimmerfloss (talk • contribs) 03:41, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

Promotional tone
The article is written in a very promotional tone, and contains little or no mention of criticism of her work. DuncanHill (talk) 15:14, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Psychoanalysis is Defunt
As any first year psych student will be able to confirm, clinical psychologists view psychoanalysis as subjective, incomplete and a case study of many of the patients treated by Sigmund and Anna reveals that its results were generally ineffective to adverse. Therefore, in order to avoid misleading the layman and convey the prevailing expert consensus, it is essential to note in the Lede that psychoanalysis is indeed considered defunct. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.50.0.255 (talk) 04:21, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Take your argument to Talk:Psychoanalysis, achieve consensus over there, and then come back here. Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 10:18, 4 December 2014 (UTC) p.s. "défunt" is a French word that means dead.

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Relationship between Anna Freud and Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham
A biographer of Dorothy who is also her grandson has found evidence that she and Anna were lovers. I've added a citation about this to the article, and the biography to the list of additional references. The biography was favorably reviewed in The New Yorker. The citation is to an interview with the grandson in a major metropolitan newspaper. The interviewer, Isacc Tylim, is a Fellow of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, an additional level of reliability. Adding this information should not be controversial. While it is clear that Anna and Dorothy did wish that this information not be known in their lifetimes, this is more a comment on the times in which they lived than the value they themselves placed on their relationship.

In the present day, it would be a greater slur to consider that the intimate nature of their relationship should be kept hidden than to note it openly. --Pechmerle (talk) 08:55, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Having examined the article cited, and setting aside the issue of reliability, I can find nothing new in way of evidence of a sexual relationship or, to use the words of the article, anything beyond “suggestive but hardly conclusive proof”.  Evidence of a “very intimate relationship”, as recounted by Burlingam’s son, is widely documented and Paula Fichtl’s “confirmation” is not new evidence – she was questioned on the subject by Jeffrey Masson in the 1990s (see his Final Analysis  Chapter 8).  That Michael Burlingham now chooses to view the relationship as sexual will, no doubt, add to the appeal of his film script but is at odds with all major accounts of the relationship which do not dispute that Anna Freud “Did not …. have a sexual relationship with Dorothy Burlingham, or with anyone else.” ( Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth (1988). Anna Freud: A Biography Yale University Press, p. 137).   The latest account in Roudinesco's 2017 biography of Freud refers to “intimate relations that closely resembled those of lesbians. But Anna categorically denied the existence of a sexual relationship…”  p. 249
 * It is the job of WP to reflect what is accepted in the relevant academic community unless conclusive evidence to the contrary is available in other reliable peer-reviewed sources. Almanacer (talk) 10:22, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Yes. Let us not gossip. Zezen (talk) 08:41, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

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Weasels galore
"It might be indeed said..." , "it may still be salutary to heed..." -> shoot them all. Zezen (talk) 08:39, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

Suicide of Mary Burlingham and Alcoholism of Robert Burlingham
I gave some details about the suicide of Anna Frank's "step daughter" (Mary) and the alcoholism and early death of her "step son" (Robert). This was removed by Almanacer on the grounds of a supposedly unreliable citation at odds with "reliable sources". The citation given was to a BBC documentary (Adam Curtis - The century of the Self -part 2) and in particular an interview with Robert Burlingham's son Michael. Given the importance of Anna Frank in the development of child psychotherapy, the fact that her lifelong intervention had such ineffective outcomes with her own step children is surely of interest, removing such references seems more a case of preserving her prestige than making the text more reliable. I must question what the "reliable sources" are that deny Mary's suicide, and why a family member speaking on camera in a BBC documentary is not a "reliable source"?DH987 (talk) 19:07, 9 November 2020 (UTC)


 * According to Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth (1988). Anna Freud: A Biography Yale University Press the desceased Burlinghams were discouraged by Anna Freud to continue in analysis with her and both found other analysts. If you want to make a claim of “ineffective outcome” linked to her you need to source it to a peer reviewed publication see WP:RS TV interviews with family members with a history of questionable claims (see section above  'Relationship between Anna Freud and Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham') don’t qualify as reliable. Almanacer (talk) 21:00, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
 * DH987 (talk) 22:56, 9 November 2020 (UTC)Thanks for the reply. I have already referred to the guidelines on what is a reliable published source, the term "publication" is not limited to written publications. The publication I refer to has been widely reviewed and the series won awards as the best historical documentary. I don't see that the 1988 biography is more reliable.  I am not sure if you have answered the point about suicide.  Are you saying that the fact that Mary Burlingham committed suicide in Anna Frank's house should not be mentioned, or do you believe that it didn't happen? Michael Burlingham is also the author of a biography of his grandmother(Burlingham, Michael John. (1989). The last Tiffany: A biography of Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham. New York: Atheneum)  DH987 (talk) 22:02, 9 November 2020 (UTC)


 * To be clear I am here to defend, not AF’s reputation, but the integrity of the article by keeping to facts described in reliable sources.  I’ve no objection to adding facts from such sources concerning the suicide and death of the Burlingham’s (in the right section of the article ie London years) but opinions linking to their analysis with AF cannot be substantiated or reliably sourced - certainly not to a family member with emotional ties involved.  The WP guidelines are clear that sources of academic provenance are the preferred option for source material. Young-Bruehl gives an account of both deaths (heart disease - not alcoholism, and suicide) and I am happy to add a summary to the article accordingly. (BTW you keep referring to Anna Frank - Freudian slip?) Almanacer (talk) 20:08, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reply. Yes I had also read that the cause of death was not alcoholism and would have altered that (although it would have contributed to ill health). I agree that the cause of Mabby's death cannot be definitively attributed to Freud's interventions.  However I strongly disagree that family members' opinions (if stated as opinions rather than facts) should be disregarded.  The very fact that they are emotionally involved is what drives them to understand better. For example with some psychological conditions therapy carried out by family members ("family based therapy" rather than "family therapy") is known to be more effective than direct professional intervention.  I suspect there are a number of reasons for this, one of which is that family members tend to care more.  The fact that Dorothy Burlingham dedicated time to her grandson and recounted her life to him when she was already approaching death surely adds to the validity of Michael's book.  I would also say that as a member of the family he will have picked up on any number of clues, impressions and oddities as we all do in our dealings with people.  These add to, rather than diminish, the significance of his work. - Re the Freudian slip; surely Anna Freud's revenge!DH987 (talk) 15:54, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
 * I think your post here just crossed with the new content I added to the article which I hope you are OK with. A previous discussion of Michael B on this page referred to his attempts to promote a film script on his family history and suggested he was prone to over dramatising as a result. No reason though his book can’t be cited as long as inline citations are given. I suspect we have different experiences of family life!! Almanacer (talk) 22:07, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

Lacan technically didn't call her the plumb line of psychoanalysis.
This is the full quote. Page 63 of the first seminar.

"Someone close to us in the Société, seized at the 1950 Congress, I know not why, with a lyrical impulse - this dear friend - called Anna Freud the plumb-line of psychoanalysis. Well, the plumb-line doesn't make a building. A number of other instruments are needed, a water-level for instance. But in the end the plumb-line isn't that bad - it allows us to gauge the vertical of certain problems."

If im not missing something then he didn't call her the plumb line of psychoanalysis himself, he mentions someone else who did. I don't know how to phrase it in the article though...

Anna Freud & Marilyn Monroe ?
Nothing on this subject ? T0t0 Cugn0 (talk) 21:22, 16 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Do you mean this? What would you add? The Marylin Monroe article says this (in a note): "Monroe underwent psychoanalysis regularly from 1955 until her death. Her analysts were psychiatrists Margaret Hohenberg (1955–57), Anna Freud (1957), Marianne Kris (1957–61), and Ralph Greenson (1960–62)." 86.187.236.59 (talk) 21:57, 16 June 2023 (UTC)


 * And her legacy & testament. --T0t0 Cugn0 (talk) 21:33, 18 June 2023 (UTC)


 * I've added a sentence on Monroe's bequest to the Hampstead Clinic. The Spoto biography mentions they met in London. He states she had an analysis with her but this has not been confirmed. Almanacer (talk) 16:32, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

.--T0t0 Cugn0 (talk) 00:37, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
 * https://www.npr.org/2012/08/03/157483945/monroes-legacy-is-making-fortune-but-for-whom
 * https://jillianhess.substack.com/p/marilyn-monroes-psychoanalytic-notes
 * https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/did-anna-freud-s-teaching-help-make-marilyn-suicidal-9269146.html

Hagiopgraphic biographies
Will we make a good article based on missing hagiopgraphic biographies and hindsight and criticism of the psychoanalytical sect ? T0t0 Cugn0 (talk) 03:37, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

psychoanalysis is NOT psychology
Psychoanalysis is NOT psychology (at all) ! T0t0 Cugn0 (talk) 03:38, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Anna Freud wasn't a psychologist ! she had no training or college degree in psychology ! Facts.--T0t0 Cugn0 (talk) 03:43, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes she was a psychoanalyst, but sources often refer to her work in the (relatively new) field of child psychology, which really just means the study of the psyche of the child, something she was certainly involved in. Harold the Sheep (talk) 04:37, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
 * This is therefore an abuse, a misunderstanding or a deception. --T0t0 Cugn0 (talk) 10:48, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
 * None of the above. Vol. 8. of her Selected Works is Psychoanalytic Psychology of Normal Development Almanacer (talk) 09:16, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Several sects have attempted to pass themselves off as psychology...--T0t0 Cugn0 (talk) 10:15, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
 * The highly tendentious assertion that Sigmund Freud, possibly the most well-known figure in the history of psychology (in the broad sense of the term that is so obviously intended here), and his daughter Anna who followed in his footsteps, are occult-rite practicing sectarians attempting to "pass themselves off" as psychologists, is not a basis for making this change. Harold the Sheep (talk) 23:38, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Sources are sources (whether you like them or not !). Sources show that Freud and his daughter practiced telepathy, occultism, rites etc (knowing that they had to conceal this).
 * Moreover, psychoanalysis is not scientific (there are many sources) and is not psychology.
 * Excuse, please, my bad written English. --T0t0 Cugn0 (talk) 07:27, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

+ Freud (S or A) is (are) not a psychologist. Freud has no training in psychology. Freud does not have any degree in psychology. Freud's writings and works are not psychology. Facts. --T0t0 Cugn0 (talk) 07:31, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

Anorexia
Michel Onfray is not a reliable source for a diagnosis of anorexia or depression for Anna Freud in 1912. Tutocugno, did a qualified person at the time make that diagnosis, or anyone since apart from Onfray? If there is someone, then maybe we can have a discussion about whether to say Anna was suffering from anorexia. If not it is just Onfray's assertion and should not be used as a statement of fact in Wikipedia's voice. The other source you used—Young-Bruehl—makes a tentative hypothetical suggestion of a mild eating disturbance, and in fact alludes to the absence of supporting information suggesting anorexia. Harold the Sheep (talk) 06:36, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
 * You have undone many improvements and modifications information with this sole pretext, it is not a friendly method; or encyclopedic !
 * You don't explain why that wouldn't be a good source. As a reminder, Young-Bruehl has the same academic background (or worst and biased), should we reject any information coming from her?
 * --T0t0 Cugn0 (talk) 08:23, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Young-Breuhl was the source you used when you first made the anorexia edit here, that’s why I mentioned it. It doesn’t in any way support what you added to the article, so why did you use it? And why are you now criticizing the source you yourself added just because someone points that out to you? Harold the Sheep (talk) 15:26, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Remember that the correspondence between father and daughter was cryptic (+censored and controlled by the psychoanalytic sect). In this quoted page, Young-Bruehl neither rejects nor affirms Anna Freud's track of anorexia, like she usually does (which leads to recurring reviews of his books), she mentions it. Michel Onfray affirms it (a reliable, good and encyclopedic source). Other sources note that his father encouraged her to gain weight (during her recuperation "from a litlle-discussed illness"). Other sources from the Soviet era or from feminists exist but they are more "direct" or even insulting --T0t0  Cugn0 (talk) 17:52, 12 July 2023 (UTC)


 * One of the reasons that led Anna to ask her father for an analysis was her inability to understand the reasons for her persistent feeling of unease, in particular her “psychasthenia”, as it was then termed, as well her anorexia and masturbatory tendencies. --T0t0 Cugn0 (talk) 18:17, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Michel Onfray is not a "good, reliable and encyclopedic source" for the claim that Anna Freud suffered from Anorexia. He is a philosopher with a lot of opinions, not a doctor or psychiatrist or psychologist. In the section above you seem outraged that anyone would dare to suggest that Anna can be included in the field of child psychology, but you have no problem with Onfray making medical diagnoses of that kind on the basis of very meagre evidence from 100 years before he was writing, and then having wikipedia parrot that diagnosis as though it is fact. Harold the Sheep (talk) 22:58, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Only the pope can talk about religion ?
 * Do you want to apply the same logic to Young-Bruehl the hagiographer (also a graduate in philosophy) and thus invalidate all her books/works/informations ? Onfray is a valid source (because he was not content to offend or offend the sensibilities of the psychoanalytical sect).
 * The other sources brought not having raised any comments, they will be added...
 * --T0t0 Cugn0 (talk) 07:38, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Onfray can opine about whatever he likes. It doesn’t mean we repeat it as fact on Wikipedia. Harold the Sheep (talk) 01:41, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Does it work with whoever you want? ! : Freud can give his opinion on anything he wants. This does not mean that we repeat it as fact on Wikipedia. --T0t0 Cugn0 (talk) 08:38, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I agree with Harold the Sheep that your sources are not reliable. To compare the work of Onfray with that of Young-Breuhl who has a demonstrable track record in Freud scholarship cannot be taken seriously.  Nor is your low opinion of her work of any relevance. Almanacer (talk) 20:06, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
 * So you are two to have no argument ! so what ? It's not a consensus - wp:consensus. if you read academic and scientific literature that does not hagiography of the Freudian religion, you would read criticisms of this lady who as a psychoanalyst is herself biased. Have you at least noticed that the source proposed above comes from psychoanalysis journals ? Be serious ! --T0t0 Cugn0 (talk) 20:54, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Totocugno, we are only talking about Young-Bruehl in this section because you used it as the source for your anorexia edit. If you are aware that the source does not support the assertion of anorexia, why did you use it? And isn’t it a bit ridiculous to then attack the source because someone checks it and it turns out to not say what you falsely claimed it was saying? The assertion of anorexia is speculative at best. No-one at the time diagnosed her with anorexia and no specialist was ever consulted about an eating disorder. There is no justification for the article to state as fact that Anna had anorexia. Harold the Sheep (talk) 01:41, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
 * We do not read Young-Bruehl in the same way. Other sources write that Anna Freud was depressed and anorexic. You are not (and I am not) the judge of the existing good quality sources on a topic. You cannot refuse Michel Onfray because he would not be a Freudian, then refuse another source from a psychoanalysis journal (because did you notice that I proposed another source from a psychoanalysis journal above?) ! --T0t0 Cugn0 (talk) 08:38, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
 * No-one "refused Michel Onfray because he would not be a Freudian". He's a philosopher making a speculative assertion based on flimsy evidence: that sort of thing probably helps him sell his books, but it is not a good enough reason for Wikipedia to repeat it as though it is fact. There might be a few other sources that speculate in a similar fashion (it can only be speculation because there is very little suggestion even of mild eating disturbance in the correspondence, and nothing about anorexia), but reliable sources will not assert such questionable diagnoses as established fact, particularly from unqualified people, and neither should Wikipedia. Harold the Sheep (talk) 07:01, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Look it also works with others :
 * Freud is a thinker who makes many speculative claim based on nothing or very flimsy evidence: that sort of thing probably helps him sell his books from his new unscientific cult, but that's not reason enough for Wikipedia to tell him. repeat as if it were obvious !
 * I brought other sources that say the same thing. I see that you have no argument and that your undo take advantage of it to erase many other things... It's not encyclopedic work that you produce !--T0t0 Cugn0 (talk) 09:39, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

If Freud makes a speculative claim about someone based on virtually no evidence, we should not present that as a statement of fact on a biographical page. But you're saying we should do that for Onfray, even though he has no professional experience or expertise in the field. Harold the Sheep (talk) 23:00, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Tell me, if i understand you correctly : As Freud only made speculative statements about people (Anna.O, the wolf man, Fliess, Rank, Reich, oedipus complex (la théorie de la séduction), primal scene...) on the basis of  no evidence, you propose to erase all these lies and other frauds?
 * I know the encyclopedic principles and rules of wikipedia. I note that neither you nor Almanacer brings up an argument based on the rules, that your undo erases whole bits of modifications that are not discussed on the talk page, that your arguments are moving...
 * I see you dodging the news sources above.--T0t0 Cugn0 (talk) 00:08, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
 * No, you obviously don’t understand me correctly. But Totocugno, I think I’ll withdraw from this conversation. I’m starting to feel like an English knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Harold the Sheep (talk) 03:28, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Not even a knight of kaamelott ! --T0t0 Cugn0 (talk) 13:08, 20 July 2023 (UTC)