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Anni Bergman (born 1919-2021) was an Austrian-born psychoanalyst who worked with autistic children. She contributed to a landmark study of early childhood development. She was a Founding Director of the Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Program.

Biography
Anna Emilie Rink was born in Vienna, Austria on January 10, 1919. She left Austria in 1939, and immigrated to California, where she studied under Arnold Shoenberg at UCLA. She graduated with a Bachelors of Art in Music. She received her Ph.D. in Clinic Psychology from the City University of New York in 1983.

She took a position at the Institute for Psychoanalytical Training and Research in XXXX. In 1996, she, along with several others, started the Three-Year Training in Parent-Infant Studies. This prgram was later renamed to the Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Training Program in 2006.

Research
In 2005, she also began collaborating with Miriam Steele, director of the Center for Attachment Research at the New School, and Inga Blom, then a graduate student, on a follow-up study of the children who had been part of Dr. Mahler’s study and were then in their mid-40s.

Anni Bergman created a program which she named “ The Parent Infant Program “. In this program it specializes on parents and infants. It showcases an observation and research on infants. Parents are always involved. With this it creates a psychotherapeutic treatment with the infant and the parents as well. Which for that being said this program shows out an early cognitive, emotional and knowledgeable relationship between the parent and infant. With the amount of trained professionals in this program this impacts the program to help parents to provide their best care and best relationship they can with their little ones.

The Anni Bergman Parent - Infant Program has a specific field they focus on. Which is psychoanalytic training and research. For the parents and infants.

Representative publications
Bergman, A. (1982). Considerations about the development of the girl during the separation-individuation process. In Early female development: Current psychoanalytic views (pp. 61-80). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

Bergman, A. (1987). On the development of female identity: Issues of mother‐daughter interaction during the separation‐individuation process. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 7(3), 381-396

Bergman, A. (2000). Merging and emerging: Separation-individuation theory and the treatment of children with disorders of the sense of self. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 1(1), 61-75

Mahler, M. S., Pine, F., & Bergman, A. (1978). Die psychische Geburt des Menschen. Frankfurt: Fischer.

Playing the Recorder: Alto. (1984). United States: EDWARD B MARKS MUSIC Company.

Ritvo, S. (1976). The Psychological Birth of the Human Infant. Symbiosis and Individuation. By Margaret S. Mahler, Fred Pine, and Anni Bergman. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1975. 308 pp.