Infants Without Families

Year 1947

Worth buying if: You want to read Anna Freud on infancy, family absence, and the conditions surrounding early childhood.

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Summary

Published in 1947, this Anna Freud title centers infants separated from family life. Its subject places questions of childhood, attachment, and care at the forefront.

Why this book now

Its focus on infants without families keeps early care and childhood separation in view as enduring human concerns.

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Anna Freud’s Infants Without Families turns its attention to the psychological and social meaning of early life without family care.

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  • You want to read Anna Freud on infancy, family absence, and the conditions surrounding early childhood.
  • You value concise historical books that examine a serious subject through a mid-century psychological lens.

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  • You are looking for a novel, memoir, or character-driven account rather than a nonfiction treatment of its stated subject.
  • You prefer contemporary research and terminology over a 1947 perspective on infants and family life.
  • You are specifically hunting for the newest framing rather than a backlist perspective.

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Serious Psychological Historical Childhood Medium length

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Exact edition: Edition shown · ISBN-13 9780823626403

Worth buying if: You want to read Anna Freud on infancy, family absence, and the conditions surrounding early childhood.

Skip it if: You are looking for a novel, memoir, or character-driven account rather than a nonfiction treatment of its stated subject.

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Balanced Moderate time

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What stands out here

This record identifies the 1947 publication from Intl Universities Pr Inc/George Allen & Unwin.

Best way to approach it

Approach it as a historical Anna Freud text, attending to how its title frames infancy, family absence, and care.

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