Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl is a writer and pschoanalyst. Her biography Anna Freud was hailed as a 'stunning achievement' in Britain and the USA. After obtaining a doctorate, she wrote an award-winning biography of Hannah Arendt. She has published widely in philosophy and psychoanalysis and her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation. She is is based in Toronto, where she is a member of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society and co-director of Caversham Productions (Psychoanalytic Educational Resources).

Books by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

Freud on Women

Ever since Freud first unveiled his theories of female psychology, his views have been the focus of intense debate; from his contemporaries' denial of 'infantile sexuality' to the feminist attacks of recent years.