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

By:

Graham, P. J. (Philip Jeremy)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Karnac, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 352 pages) : illustrations, portraitsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781849408332
1849408335
9780429905360
042990536X
9780429933820
0429933827
1282779974
9781282779976
9786612779978
6612779977
0429480598
9780429480591

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Susan Isaacs.DDC classification:

618.92/8917092 22

LOC classification:

RC339.52 .I83 2009eb

NLM classification:

2009 F-522
WZ 100

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

Chapter One Damaged roots / Philip Graham -- chapter Two Our star student / Philip Graham -- chapter Three An academic marriage / Philip Graham -- chapter Four Finding a place on the couch / Philip Graham -- chapter Five The Malting House School: a dream becomes reality / Philip Graham -- chapter Six Rise and fall of the Malting House School / Philip Graham -- chapter Seven Resurfacing / Philip Graham -- chapter Eight Settled on the couch / Philip Graham -- chapter Nine The wisdom of Ursula Wise / Philip Graham -- chapter Ten Teaching the teachers / Philip Graham -- chapter Eleven Psycho-analysis in the 1930s: building up to war / Philip Graham -- chapter Twelve Battling for the minds of children / Philip Graham -- chapter Thirteen Legacies / Philip Graham.

Review: "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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-344) and index.

"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

Print version record.

English.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650