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Esther Bick publishes ‘Notes on infant observation in psychoanalytic training,’ which remains to this day a key text on the subject.

2 February, 1964

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Donald Winnicott’s 'The Child, the Family, and the Outside World' is published

3 March, 1964

... developed from his enormously influential BBC radio broadcasts on mothering and children, which ran from 1943 till 1962.

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Anna Freud almost splits from the Society, proposing to set up a separate IPA Study Group

1 January, 1972

Instead she agrees to a new reciprocal relationship with the Society, whereby she will provide child analysis training to Society graduates, and her own trainees will be able to qualify as analysts through the Society.

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Hanna Segal’s 'Klein' is published, on the theory and life of her former analyst and teacher, Melanie Klein

1 January, 1979

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Anna Freud dies on October 9th

8 October, 1982

Her work, particularly in child analysis, will continue to be highly influential in child psychology and psychotherapy. Her Hampstead Clinic is renamed the Anna Freud Centre. Just two weeks after Freud’s death, Paula Heimann dies. Her work had been influential in emphasizing the importance of countertransference in analytic treatment.

See Anna Freud's timeline here on the Anna Freud Centre website