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Author Graham, P. J. (Philip Jeremy)

Title Susan Isaacs : a life freeing the minds of children / Philip Graham.

Publication Info. London : Karnac, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 352 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-344) and index.
Summary "This biography provides a critical account of the life and work of Susan Isaacs (1885-1948). This educationist, a pioneer of child-centred education in Britain, was also an early and historically important child psychoanalyst. She is described in the Oxford English Dictionary of National Biography as "the greatest influence on British education in the twentieth century". Yet she is virtually unknown in both educational and psychoanalytic circles. When Melanie Klein was threatened with expulsion from the British Psychoanalytic Society she was by far her most powerful advocate and thus played a major role in determining the direction of British psychoanalysis from the 1940s onwards. This book provides an account of her life and contains much intimate material about her childhood, her marriage and her work that was previously unknown. It gives a fascinating insight into many facets of her life and concludes with an appraisal of her impact on the worlds of education and psychoanalysis."--Jacket.
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Subject Isaacs, Susan Sutherland Fairhurst, 1885-1948.
Isaacs, Susan Sutherland Fairhurst, 1885-1948.
Isaacs, Susan Sutherland Fairhurst, 1885-1948.
Educators -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Educators.
Great Britain.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Psychoanalysts -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Psychoanalysts.
Education -- Great Britain -- History -- Biography.
Education.
History.
Psychoanalysis -- Great Britain -- History -- Biography.
Psychoanalysis.
Child psychiatry -- Great Britain -- History -- Biography.
Child psychiatry.
Education.
Psychoanalysis.
Child Psychiatry.
United Kingdom.
Genre/Form Biography.
Electronic books.
History.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Graham, P.J. (Philip Jeremy). Susan Isaacs. London : Karnac, ©2009 9781855756915 (DLC) 2009419498 (OCoLC)298511023
ISBN 9781849408332 (electronic book)
1849408335 (electronic book)
9781855756915
1855756919