Elisabeth Young‐bruehl
Biographic Data
| ID | 4006629 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elisabeth Young‐bruehl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elisabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Young‐bruehl |
| SIGNATURE | BRUEHL E Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Anna Freud: A Biography, Second Edition
This edition of Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's definitive biography of pioneering child analyst Anna Freud includes among other new features a major retrospective introduction by the author. Praise for the Second Edition: Young-Bruehl’s description of one of the most complex but brilliant lights in psychoanalytic history has stood as a beacon to students of psychoanalytic history. It is the best most carefully crafted biography of any psychoanalyst and…
Why Psychoanalysis Has No History
Why Psychoanalysis Has No History Elisabeth Young-Bruehl and Murray M. Schwartz (bio) In this paper we offer a brief history of writing about psychoanalysis' history. We argue that both psychoanalysis and historical writing about it were shaped crucially by the early schisms within psychoanalysis, by Freud's death, and then the diaspora of European psychoanalysis, a trauma history which precipitated a fragmentation or dissociation. We have noted …
Sexual Diversity in Cosmopolitan Perspective
This article surveys recent shifts in sexological understanding of sexual diversity, emphasizing how thinking in terms of the 3 sexual binaries—male/female, masculine/feminine, same sex/opposite sex—preference has receded. It correlates these shifts with greater understanding around the world of the complexities of sex and sexual behavior and with studies of prejudice that emphasize the importance of defensive group identities requiring ascetic p…
Characterological secrecy
On Jack Drescher's “Handle with Care”
This discussion of Jack Drescher's case, “Handle with Care” is in three parts: a reflection on case study writing and its psychiatric and psychoanalytic methods; a portrait of the patient in the case and his gay partner as two perfectionistic obsessional characters, making particular demands on therapists as such; and a series of questions about “learning to accept limits” as a goal of treatment
Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis I: Historical Perspectives
On May 1, 2004, the Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists (AGLP), with co-sponsorship from St. Luke's–Roosevelt Medical Center, The Haworth Press, and the William Alanson White Institute, organized an all-day conference in New York City entitled “Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis: New Directions.” The proceedings of the first panel focused on Historical Perspectives. The first contributor is Kenneth Lewes, PhD, who discusses the history of …
The Art of Alarm
Research Article| January 01 2007 The Art of Alarm Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Good Society (2007) 16 (2): 19–24. https://doi.org/10.2307/20711262 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Elisabeth Young-Bruehl; The Art of Alarm. The Good Society 1 January 2007; 16 (2): 19–24. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/20711262 Download citation fil…
The Plastic Brain Creates
Truth, Lies, and Politics: A Conversation
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl and Jerome Kohn Truth, Lies, and Politics: A Conversation EY-B: W HEN JEROME KOHN AND I FIRST MET HER— AND EACH OTHER— IN A spring and summer 1968 seminar at the New School, Hannah Arendt was 62, smoking away nervously and talking with that astonishing intensity and energy of thought. During the “cascade of events” (to use one of her phrases) of that spring—Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assas sination, student riots in Paris, …
Coming of Age in New York City: Two Homeless Boys
This paper focuses on two cases, both homeless young gay men living--trying to survive--in New York City. The young men's stories and their manner of being in psychotherapy are presented. One, Hispanic, had developed as an angry, aggressive, manipulative anti-authoritarian; the other, African American, was engaging, passive, exploitable, and full of rescue fantasies. The author raises questions about how humiliating childhood physical and sexual …
A Maltreated Girl: A Case and A Theoretical Commentary
Where Do We Fall When We Fall In Love
In recent years, evolutionary psychologists have been counting the ways in which people love one another. With their new techniques for revealing our biochemical and neurophysiological selves, a group of the contemporary Darwinians have had no trouble taking the mystery out of romantic love. They tell us that when we fall in love we are falling into a stream of naturally occurring amphetamines running through the emotional centers of our very own…
The Interpretation of an Architect's Dream: Relational Trauma and Its Prevention
uring the eight months she has been in analysis with me, my patient has often dreamt about our work. We go on journeys together, we build new houses or renovate old ones, we make nice meals for a child—herself. In these dreams, she usually appears both as she is now, a widow in her forties, childless, an architect, and as a child whose age often points us to the developmental meaning of the dream. The dreams both recreate her past and recreate ho…
Homophobias: A Diagnostic and Political Manual
On the Origins of a New Totalitarianism
OVER the past three days, we have been considering the relevance for the present time of Hannah Arendt’s monumental work, The Origins of Totalitarianism, published 50 years ago, the first book of a then almost unknown 45-year-old émigré German Jewish woman who went on to become the major political thinker of her generation. But during this conference we have, of course, all been thinking about this book in the wake of the September 11 attacks on …
Are Human Beings "By Nature" Bisexual
In this paper, I first survey the ways in which bisexuality was understood by late 19th-century sexologists, by Freud and his followers, by Alfred Kinsey, and by contemporary social scientists and political activists. Then the three domains distinguished by Freud in which bisexuality is currently being examined are surveyed: biological bisexuality, psychological bisexuality (in terms of gender), and kinds of object choice. Particular areas of res…
"Review of The talking cures: The psychoanalyses and the psychotherapies: Response to Wallerstein (2000).
Beyond “The Female Homosexual”
This essay offers a brief history of how the stereotype “the female homosexual” was created through three installments of psychoanalytic theorizing, starting with Freud's (1920) case study. A second, brief history presents the various strands of critical theorizing that have identified “the female homosexual” as a stereotype. The essay then makes a contribution to current discussion of female homosexuality by suggesting an instinct theory that fe…
The Wise Baby as the Voice of the True Self
Sandor Ferenczi wrote about a typical dream of the "Wise Baby" and later used this figure to represent the child who is traumatized into precocious wisdom, who becomes "the family psychiatrist." We discuss Ferenczi's theory of traumatization and the "split self," noting how it was taken up in D. W. Winnicott's "True Self/False Self" conceptualization. We then present three patients' wise baby dreams to show how these trauma theories can be used i…
Cherishment Culture
Cherishment Culture Faith Bethelard and Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Introduction Since the beginning of the nineteenth century—since Goethe in his Weimar old age—prophets in the West have had a sense of impending catastrophe, for the West, but also, in consequence, for all humankind. From European travelers like Stendhal, de Tocqueville, Burckhardt, from lonely philosophers like Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, from anticipators of salvation through catastr…
Profile of a Latency Woman: Development for Biographers
Profile of A Latency Woman: Development for Biographers Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Introduction: Methodological Lacks Since Studies in Hysteria, psychoanalytic case studies and biographies have grown up together. They have been related like step-siblings, from the same father. And they both show his parenting influence, but not in the same way. Case writing has grown with psychoanalysis, becoming more and more sophisticated while incorporating—as Fre…
The anatomy of prejudices
This work looks at what has been said about prejudice, and what has remained unsaid. It examines this phenomenon, from the offhand slight to the full-scale war, and searches for an understanding that might take some of the strain out of difference. Surveying the study of prejudice since World War II, Young-Bruehl finds a history riddled with assumptions, generalizations, and cliches. The bok proposes a fresh start, and suggests an approach that d…
Origen, identidad y acción política: Reflexiones sobre la vida y obra de Hannah Arendt
Origen, identidad y acción política: reflexiones sobre la vida y obra de Hannah Arendt
On feminism and psychoanalysis: In the case of anorexia nervosa.
On feminism and psychoanalysis: In the case of anorexia nervosa
Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World
The Education of Women as Philosophers
Why Psychoanalysis Has No History
Why Psychoanalysis Has No History Elisabeth Young-Bruehl and Murray M. Schwartz (bio) In this paper we offer a brief history of writing about psychoanalysis' history. We argue that both psychoanalysis and historical writing about it were shaped crucially by the early schisms within psychoanalysis, by Freud's death, and then the diaspora of European psychoanalysis, a trauma history which precipitated a fragmentation or dissociation. We have noted …
What Thucydides Saw
Before contemporary history became an acknowledged subdiscipline of history and began to be practiced by professional historians, it was the province of people who had in common much practical political experience; they were sidelined activists, retired politicians and soldiers, exiles and refugees. The classical touchstone for the great contemporary historians of the modern period, from Machiavelli to Marx, was a work unique in its own time and …
Where Do We Fall When We Fall In Love
In recent years, evolutionary psychologists have been counting the ways in which people love one another. With their new techniques for revealing our biochemical and neurophysiological selves, a group of the contemporary Darwinians have had no trouble taking the mystery out of romantic love. They tell us that when we fall in love we are falling into a stream of naturally occurring amphetamines running through the emotional centers of our very own…
Homophobias: A Diagnostic and Political Manual
On the Origins of a New Totalitarianism
OVER the past three days, we have been considering the relevance for the present time of Hannah Arendt’s monumental work, The Origins of Totalitarianism, published 50 years ago, the first book of a then almost unknown 45-year-old émigré German Jewish woman who went on to become the major political thinker of her generation. But during this conference we have, of course, all been thinking about this book in the wake of the September 11 attacks on …
Are Human Beings "By Nature" Bisexual
In this paper, I first survey the ways in which bisexuality was understood by late 19th-century sexologists, by Freud and his followers, by Alfred Kinsey, and by contemporary social scientists and political activists. Then the three domains distinguished by Freud in which bisexuality is currently being examined are surveyed: biological bisexuality, psychological bisexuality (in terms of gender), and kinds of object choice. Particular areas of res…
Friendship between Women: The Act of Feminist Biography
The Wise Baby as the Voice of the True Self
Sandor Ferenczi wrote about a typical dream of the "Wise Baby" and later used this figure to represent the child who is traumatized into precocious wisdom, who becomes "the family psychiatrist." We discuss Ferenczi's theory of traumatization and the "split self," noting how it was taken up in D. W. Winnicott's "True Self/False Self" conceptualization. We then present three patients' wise baby dreams to show how these trauma theories can be used i…
Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World
Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World
Friendship between Women: The Act of Feminist Biography
What Thucydides Saw
Before contemporary history became an acknowledged subdiscipline of history and began to be practiced by professional historians, it was the province of people who had in common much practical political experience; they were sidelined activists, retired politicians and soldiers, exiles and refugees. The classical touchstone for the great contemporary historians of the modern period, from Machiavelli to Marx, was a work unique in its own time and …
The Education of Women as Philosophers
Nietzsche's Enticing Psychology of Power
On feminism and psychoanalysis: In the case of anorexia nervosa.
On feminism and psychoanalysis: In the case of anorexia nervosa
On feminism and psychoanalysis--in the case of anorexia nervosa
The anatomy of prejudices
This work looks at what has been said about prejudice, and what has remained unsaid. It examines this phenomenon, from the offhand slight to the full-scale war, and searches for an understanding that might take some of the strain out of difference. Surveying the study of prejudice since World War II, Young-Bruehl finds a history riddled with assumptions, generalizations, and cliches. The bok proposes a fresh start, and suggests an approach that d…
Origen, identidad y acción política: Reflexiones sobre la vida y obra de Hannah Arendt
Origen, identidad y acción política: reflexiones sobre la vida y obra de Hannah Arendt
Cherishment Culture
Cherishment Culture Faith Bethelard and Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Introduction Since the beginning of the nineteenth century—since Goethe in his Weimar old age—prophets in the West have had a sense of impending catastrophe, for the West, but also, in consequence, for all humankind. From European travelers like Stendhal, de Tocqueville, Burckhardt, from lonely philosophers like Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, from anticipators of salvation through catastr…
Profile of a Latency Woman: Development for Biographers
Profile of A Latency Woman: Development for Biographers Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Introduction: Methodological Lacks Since Studies in Hysteria, psychoanalytic case studies and biographies have grown up together. They have been related like step-siblings, from the same father. And they both show his parenting influence, but not in the same way. Case writing has grown with psychoanalysis, becoming more and more sophisticated while incorporating—as Fre…
The Wise Baby as the Voice of the True Self
Sandor Ferenczi wrote about a typical dream of the "Wise Baby" and later used this figure to represent the child who is traumatized into precocious wisdom, who becomes "the family psychiatrist." We discuss Ferenczi's theory of traumatization and the "split self," noting how it was taken up in D. W. Winnicott's "True Self/False Self" conceptualization. We then present three patients' wise baby dreams to show how these trauma theories can be used i…
"Review of The talking cures: The psychoanalyses and the psychotherapies: Response to Wallerstein (2000).
Beyond “The Female Homosexual”
This essay offers a brief history of how the stereotype “the female homosexual” was created through three installments of psychoanalytic theorizing, starting with Freud's (1920) case study. A second, brief history presents the various strands of critical theorizing that have identified “the female homosexual” as a stereotype. The essay then makes a contribution to current discussion of female homosexuality by suggesting an instinct theory that fe…
Are Human Beings "By Nature" Bisexual
In this paper, I first survey the ways in which bisexuality was understood by late 19th-century sexologists, by Freud and his followers, by Alfred Kinsey, and by contemporary social scientists and political activists. Then the three domains distinguished by Freud in which bisexuality is currently being examined are surveyed: biological bisexuality, psychological bisexuality (in terms of gender), and kinds of object choice. Particular areas of res…
Homophobias: A Diagnostic and Political Manual
On the Origins of a New Totalitarianism
OVER the past three days, we have been considering the relevance for the present time of Hannah Arendt’s monumental work, The Origins of Totalitarianism, published 50 years ago, the first book of a then almost unknown 45-year-old émigré German Jewish woman who went on to become the major political thinker of her generation. But during this conference we have, of course, all been thinking about this book in the wake of the September 11 attacks on …
Where Do We Fall When We Fall In Love
In recent years, evolutionary psychologists have been counting the ways in which people love one another. With their new techniques for revealing our biochemical and neurophysiological selves, a group of the contemporary Darwinians have had no trouble taking the mystery out of romantic love. They tell us that when we fall in love we are falling into a stream of naturally occurring amphetamines running through the emotional centers of our very own…
The Interpretation of an Architect's Dream: Relational Trauma and Its Prevention
uring the eight months she has been in analysis with me, my patient has often dreamt about our work. We go on journeys together, we build new houses or renovate old ones, we make nice meals for a child—herself. In these dreams, she usually appears both as she is now, a widow in her forties, childless, an architect, and as a child whose age often points us to the developmental meaning of the dream. The dreams both recreate her past and recreate ho…
A Maltreated Girl: A Case and A Theoretical Commentary
Coming of Age in New York City: Two Homeless Boys
This paper focuses on two cases, both homeless young gay men living--trying to survive--in New York City. The young men's stories and their manner of being in psychotherapy are presented. One, Hispanic, had developed as an angry, aggressive, manipulative anti-authoritarian; the other, African American, was engaging, passive, exploitable, and full of rescue fantasies. The author raises questions about how humiliating childhood physical and sexual …
The Art of Alarm
Research Article| January 01 2007 The Art of Alarm Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Good Society (2007) 16 (2): 19–24. https://doi.org/10.2307/20711262 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Elisabeth Young-Bruehl; The Art of Alarm. The Good Society 1 January 2007; 16 (2): 19–24. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/20711262 Download citation fil…
The Plastic Brain Creates
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