Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl (born 3 March 1946 as Elisabeth Young) is an American academic and psychotherapist, currently a practicing psychoanalyst in New York City and on the faculty of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. [http://www.trincoll.edu/pub/MediaAdv/010305_Eliz_YoungBruehl.htm Announcement for lecture "Sexuality, Then and Now"] , Trinity College, Connecticut. Accessed 29 November 2006.] She has published a wide range of books, most notably biographies of Hannah Arendt and Anna Freud, but also including poetry but she kept the hyphenated surname), and became familiar with the work of the political theorist Hannah Arendt. Shortly after this, Arendt joined the Graduate Faculty of the New School. She became Young-Bruehl's mentor and dissertation advisor; Young-Bruehl received a Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1974 and received a faculty appointment at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.

The next year, Hannah Arendt died at 69; several of Arendt's émigré friends approached Young-Bruehl to take on the task of writing Arendt's biography. The resulting book, published in 1982, is still the standard work on Hannah Arendt's life. It has been translated into several languages, and a second edition came out in 2004. [Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, "Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World", Second Edition, Yale University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-300-10588-6]

Young-Bruehl's work on the Arendt biography gave her an increasingly strong interest in psychoanalysis. In 1983, she enrolled for clinical psychoanalytic training in New Haven, Connecticut. At New Haven's Child Study Center, she met several of Anna Freud's American colleagues, and was invited to become Anna Freud's biographer, leading to the 1988 book "Anna Freud: A Biography".

In the 1990s she left Wesleyan and moved to Philadelphia, where she taught part-time at Haverford College and continued her psychoanalytic training at the Philadelphia Association for Psychoanalysis, from which she graduated in 1999. She started a private practice as a therapist, first in Philadelphia and later in New York City. Throughout this time, she continued to publish books, including the award-winning "The Anatomy of Prejudices". [Biographical data drom Elisabeth Young-Bruehl || Faith Bethelard || Ying Li, combined with publication dates of her works.]

Bibliography

* "Conor Cruise O'Brien: An Appraisal" (co-author: Joanne L. Henderson. Proscenium Press, 1974, ISBN 0-912262-33-8)
* "Freedom and Karl Jasper's Philosophy" (Yale University Press, 1981, ISBN 0-300-02629-3)
* "Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World" (Yale University Press 1982, ISBN 0-300-02660-9; Second Edition Yale University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-300-10588-6)
* "Vigil" (novel, Louisiana State University Press, 1983, ISBN 0-8071-1075-2)
* "Anna Freud: A Biography" (Summit Books, New York, 1988, ISBN 0-671-61696-X)
* "Mind and the Body Politic" (Routledge, Independence, Kentucky, 1989, ISBN 0-415-90118-9)
* Foreword to "Between Hell and Reason: Essays From the Resistance Newspaper "Combat", 1944-1947" (Wesleyan University Press, 1991, ISBN 0-8195-5189-9)
* "Creative Characters", (Routledge, 1991, ISBN 0-415-90369-6)
* "Freud on Women: A Reader" (editor) (Norton, 1992, ISBN 0-393-30870-7)
* "Global Cultures: a Transnational Short Fiction Reader" (editor, Wesleyan University Press, 1994, ISBN 0-8195-6282-3)
* "The Anatomy of Prejudices" (Harvard University Press, 1996, ISBN 0-674-03190-3)
* Foreword to 1997 re-issue of David Stafford-Clark's 1965 book, "What Freud Really Said: An Introduction to His Life and Thought" (Schocken Books, 1997, ISBN 0-8052-1080-6)
* "Subject to Biography: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Writing Women's Lives" (Harvard Univ Press, 1999, ISBN 0-674-85371-7)
* "Cherishment: a Psychology of the Heart " (co-author: Faith Bethelard. Free Press, 2000, ISBN 0-684-85966-1)
* "Where Do We Fall When We Fall in Love?" (essays, Other Press (NY), 2003, ISBN 1-59051-068-2)

Notes

References

* [http://web.archive.org/web/20050206095135/http://www.cherishment.com/authors.html Elisabeth Young-Bruehl || Faith Bethelard || Ying Li] (biographical notes), on the Web Archive, archived February 6, 2005. Originally part of the publicity for "Cherishment".