Elisabeth Brainin

Elisabeth Brainin (born 1949 ) is an Austrian psychiatrist , psychoanalyst , author and lecturer who specializes in child psychoanalysis , trauma , anti-Semitism and coming to terms with the consequences of National Socialism . She is the former head of Child Guidance Vienna, the Institute for Educational Assistance, acts as a board member of ESRA and works closely with Vera Ligeti and Samy Teicher .

Her parents are Lotte and Hugo Brainin , who both survived the Holocaust.

Important publications

• Trauma and fantasy . Together with Samy Teicher. In: WPV: Trauma of Psychoanalysis? The expulsion of psychoanalysis from Vienna in 1938 and the consequences, Vienna: Mille Tre 2005, ISBN 978-3-900198-08-4
• Playful solutions: The child as the center of psychotherapeutic thinking. Festschrift for Ruth Naske. Edited by Elisabeth Brainin and Gerald Kral, Linz: Pro Mente 2002, ISBN 3-85452-425-0
• Being a child in stormy days , edited by Elisabeth Brainin, Picus 2003, ISBN 3-85452-468-4
• From Thought to Action: On the Psychoanalysis of Anti-Semitism. Together with Vera Ligeti and Samy Teicher. Frankfurt: Brandes and Apsel 1993. ISBN 3-86099-111-6
• National Socialism, Nationalism , Frankfurt: SFBF 1990, ISBN 3-926932-08-2

Web links

• Literature by and about Elisabeth Brainin in the catalog of the German National Library