Person
Anni Bergman
Vienna-born child psychoanalyst who emigrated to the United States in 1939, trained with Margaret Mahler as her analyst and joined her study of infants and mothers at the Masters Children's Center from 1959. Co-author of The Psychological Birth of the Human Infant (1975), she went on to treat autistic and psychotic children together with their parents and to found a parent–infant training programme in New York.
- Born
- 1919
- Died
- 2021
- Known for
- Separation-individuation
- Influenced by
- Margaret Mahler
collaborated with
- Margaret Mahler 1959 From 1959 Bergman worked with Mahler on the observational study of infants and mothers at the Masters Children's Center in New York, and she co-authored the 1975 book on separation-individuation.
developed
- Separation-individuation 1975 Bergman took part in the Masters Children's Center observations from 1959 and co-authored the 1975 book that set out the separation-individuation theory.
analysed by
- Margaret Mahler Mahler was Anni Bergman's training analyst. Bergman later became her chief collaborator in the separation-individuation research.