title: Anna Freud: observation and development.
abstract: Anna Freud taught the importance of observation, suggesting that students jot down their observations in a systematic manner. She urged observers to amplify their notes, which were later discussed in meetings. Observations made in the nursery school, for example, were discussed afterwards and classified in a file under appropriate headings somewhat similar to the technique used at the Anna Freud Centre. In this paper I describe my observations of a subject as an infant and a toddler with special reference to the way she looked intensely at the world around her. To some degree, the way she herself looked-i.e., her appearance-was also interesting. The relationship between the child's looking in infancy and the oedipal child's sexual curiosity, exhibitionism, and scoptophilia is suggested by these observations.
authors.affiliation: Yale Child Study Center, USA.
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Colonna
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005619:Freudian Theory; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009813:Oedipus Complex; D010552:Personality Assessment; D010553:Personality Development; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy