Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

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

Life

Young-Bruehl's mother Lois (Bea) Williams was a housewife and her father Herbert (Gibby) Young was 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, from whom she later divorced. In 2005 she moved to Toronto. There she married Christine Dunbar in 2008.

She had previously taught at Wesleyan University and later at Haverford College . She published a large number of specialist books, among which the biographies of Hannah Arendt , whose student she was temporarily, and Anna Freud became known to a larger audience. She received the Harcourt Award for her Arendt biography, which is considered the standard work for Arendt research. Her publication Anatomy of a Prejudice (1982) won the 1996 award from the prestigious Association of American Publishers for the best book in psychology. In addition to specialist publications, Young-Bruehl published poetry and prose.

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl died on December 1, 2011 in Toronto of a pulmonary embolism .

Works (selection)

  • 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 .
  • Vigil. Louisiana State University Press, 1983, ISBN 0-8071-1075-2 .
  • 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 0-8195-5189-9 .
  • 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 .
  • Anna Freud, Part 1, The Vienna Years. 1995, ISBN 3-85286-011-3 .
  • The Anatomy of Prejudices Harvard University Press, 1996, ISBN 0-674-03190-3 .
  • Foreword in 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 .
  • Hannah Arendt. Life, work and time. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 1986, 2nd A. 2004, 3rd A. 2013, ISBN 3-596-16010-3 .
  • Why Arendt Matters. Yale University Press, London 2006, ISBN 0-300-12044-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death notice on hannaharendtcenter.org
  2. ↑ a b c Elisabeth Young-Bruehl dug deep to understand the roots of prejudice. on theglobeandmail.com
  3. ↑ a b Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Who Probed Roots of Ideology and Bias, Dies at 65. on nytimes.com, December 6, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Young, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychotherapist and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Maryland
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 2011
Place of death Toronto