Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl ( born March 3 1946 as Elisabeth Young in a small town in Maryland on the Chesapeake Bay, † December 1, 2011 in Toronto ) was a psychotherapist, journalist and lecturer at the Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research at Columbia University in New York City.

Life

Young Bruehls mother Lois ( Bea ) Williams was a housewife and her father Herbert ( Gibby ) Young is a professional golfer. Young- Bruehl had an older brother and a younger sister. After attending Sarah Lawrence College, she studied philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York City.

In 1968, she married Robert Bruehl, of which she divorced later. In 2005, she moved to Toronto. There she married in 2008 Christine Dunbar.

Previously she taught at Wesleyan University, and later at Haverford College. She has published a large number of books, among which the biographies of Hannah Arendt, whose pupil she was at times, and Anna Freud were known to a wider audience. For Arendt 's biography, which is considered a standard work for Arendt research, she was awarded the Literature Prize Harcourt Award. Your publication anatomy of prejudice (1982 ) won the 1996 prize of the prestigious American Association of Publishers Association of American Publishers for the best book in psychology. Besides Publications Young- Bruehl published poetry and prose.

Works (selection)

  • Conor Cruise O'Brien: An Appraisal. ( co - author: Joanne L. Henderson ). Proscenium Press, 1974, ISBN 0-912-26233-8.
  • Freedom and Karl Jasper's Philosophy. Yale University Press, 1981, ISBN 0-300-02629-3.
  • Vigil. Louisiana State University Press, 1983, ISBN 0-807-11075-2.
  • Mind and the Body Politic Routledge, Independence, Kentucky, 1989, ISBN 0-415-90118-9.
  • Foreword in: Between Hell and Reason: Essays From the Resistance Newspaper "Combat", 1944-1947. Wesleyan University Press, 1991, ISBN 0-819-55189-9.
  • 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 0-819-56282-3.
  • Anna Freud, Tl.1 The Vienna years. 1995, ISBN 3-852-86011-3. Anna Freud: A Biography. Summit Books, New York, 1988, ISBN 0 - 671-61696 -X.
  • 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.
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