Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Papers

The fonds is related to Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's writing of a biography of Anna Freud, published by Summit Books, New York, in 1988.

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl initially studied poetry under poet Muriel Rukeyser, but after interrupting these studies Young-Bruehl gained her undergraduate degree at The New School for Social Research in New York. Young-Bruehl would later meet Hannah Arendt there during her PhD studies. Arendt was Young-Bruehl?s PhD supervisor as well as her mentor, and after Arendt?s passing it was Young-Bruehl that wrote her biography (Hannah Arendt: For The Love of the World, published in 1982.) Later training to become a psychoanalyst in New Haven in the 1980s, Young-Bruehl would meet many of Anna Freud?s colleagues: asked once again to write the biography, Young-Bruehl published Anna Freud: A Biography in 1998. She completed her training the following year, graduating from the Philadelphia Association for Psychoanalysis. Young-Bruehl practiced as an analyst until 2011, when she died suddenly of a pulmonary embolism. She had continued to write, publishing works such as Where Do We Fall When We Fall in Love? (2003) and Childism: Confronting Prejudice against Children (2012).