Susan Isaacs
eBook - ePub

Susan Isaacs

A Life Freeing the Minds of Children

  1. 376 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Susan Isaacs

A Life Freeing the Minds of Children

About this book

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 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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  7. PREFACE
  8. INTRODUCTION
  9. CHAPTER ONE Damaged roots
  10. CHAPTER TWO Our star student
  11. CHAPTER THREE An academic marriage
  12. CHAPTER FOUR Finding a place on the couch
  13. CHAPTER FIVE The Malting House School: a dream becomes reality
  14. CHAPTER SIX Rise and fall of the Malting House School
  15. CHAPTER SEVEN Resurfacing
  16. CHAPTER EIGHT Settled on the couch
  17. CHAPTER NINE The wisdom of Ursula Wise
  18. CHAPTER TEN Teaching the teachers
  19. CHAPTER ELEVEN Psycho-analysis in the 1930s: building up to war
  20. CHAPTER TWELVE Battling for the minds of children
  21. CHAPTER THIRTEEN Legacies
  22. REFERENCES/BIBLIOGRAPHY
  23. INDEX