Beyond the Best Interests of the Child is published, co-authored by Anna Freud, psychoanalyst Albert Solnit and legal scholar Joseph Goldstein

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1 January 1973

Two further books on the subject will follow, though Freud dies before the third and final work is written. As a trilogy, known as The Best Interests of the Child, it goes on to have a huge impact on child welfare policy in the UK, US and beyond.

Image: Scan from the Preface of Beyond The Best Interests of the Child