It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.

The war gave Freud opportunity to observe the effect of deprivation of parental care on children. 1.

Born in Vienna Anna Freud followed the path of her father and contributed to the newly born field of psychoanalysis. Alongside Melanie Klein Anna Freud may be considered the founder of psychoanalytic child psychology: as her father put it child analysis 'had received a powerful impetus through "the work of Frau Melanie Klein and of my daughter Anna Freud"'.