Erika Freeman

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Erika Padan Freeman (born Erika Polesciuk on July 2, 1927 in Vienna ) is an American psychoanalyst of Austrian origin.

Life

At the age of twelve, Erika Polesciuk was brought to safety in London from the German persecution of the Jews in February 1940 and reached distant relatives in the USA with an affidavit . Her mother survived the persecution of the Jews in hiding in Vienna, but died in an Allied air raid in 1945. Her father was a social democrat and was able to flee to Sweden from the Theresienstadt concentration camp . He only found out in 1946 that the daughter had survived.

She studied psychology at Columbia University , where one of her teachers was the psychoanalyst and Freud student Theodor Reik, who had fled from Vienna . She received her doctorate with a dissertation on the position of the family in the kibbutz . Her aunt, the Zionist Ruth Klüger-Aliav , helped her start her career in New York. Polesciuk Hebrew her name to Padan and married the painter Paul K. Freeman (1929–1980) in 1955. In her psychological practice, Padan Freeman treated some of the greats in the film industry from the 1960s and 1970s and was friends with Liv Ullmann . With Reik she published a volume with transcripts of conversations on psychoanalysis.

For the Austrian remembrance project A Letter To The Stars , Freeman has traveled to Austria again and again since 2007 and stood up as a contemporary witness against oblivion.

Padan Freeman received the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art in 2017 .

Fonts

  • Erika Freeman Padan: Psychological study of a family in a kibbutz in Israel . Dissertation Columbia University, 1964 microfilm
  • Erika Freeman: Insights; conversations with Theodor Reik . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1971

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SURNAME Freeman, Erika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Padan Freeman, Erika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychoanalyst of Austrian origin
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna