Books written by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

  • Anna Freud: A Biography

    Clark, Pierce, 174 Clarke, Lady Betty, 246, 321 Clark University, 53, 54, 340-43, 345- 347 Cleveland, 344, 346, 348, 362, 394 Clift, Montgomery, 357 Clinical Concept Research Group, 408 "Cocaine Papers" (S. Freud), 449- 5° Coles, ...

  • Why Arendt Matters

    Martin Luther King, “Loving Your Enemies,” sermon delivered to the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, Christmas 1957. 30. Desmond Tutu, No Future Without Forgiveness(New York: Double- day, 1999), p. 23. 31.

  • The Anatomy of Prejudices

    W. Montgomery ( Boston : Beacon Press , 1958 ) , p . 133 . 12. Theodor Adorno , " Anti - Semitism and Fascist Propaganda , " in Anti - Semitism : A Social Disease , ed . Ernst Simmel ( New York : International Universities Press ...

  • Vigil: A Novel

    An elderly woman, one of the last surviving members of a formerly wealthy family, retreats into the past and records her memories in a journal.

  • Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World

    In a new preface the author offers an account of writings by and about Arendt that have appeared since the book's 1982 publication, providing a reassessment of her subject's life and achievement.

  • Childism: Confronting Prejudice Against Children

    The author exposes American society's prejudice against its children--from corporal punishment and an uncaring foster care system to the pressure placed on children to support one parent or another in a divorce--and the harm it causes them.

  • Where Do We Fall when We Fall in Love?

    Where do we fall in love? What are the differences between narcissistic love and affectionate love? Are all human beings by nature bisexual? Exploring these and other questions, this work...

  • Subject to Biography: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Writing Women's Lives

    Elisabeth Young-Bruehl illuminates the psychological and intellectual demands writing biography makes on the biographer and explores the complex and frequently conflicted relationship between feminism and psychoanalysis.

  • Anna Freud: A Biography

    The life and career of the founder of child psychoanalysis. In particular, the author looks at Anna's relationship with her father, Sigmund Freud.

  • Global Cultures: A Transnational Short Fiction Reader

    " Young-Bruehl finds that while the cultural diversity the stories exemplify is amazing, so too is the similarity in thematic terms of the concerns that this diversity presents.

  • Why Arendt Matters

    Over the next twenty-five years, she wrote ten more books and developed a set of ideas that profoundly influenced the way America and Europe addressed the central questions and dilemmas of World War II. In this concise book, Elisabeth Young ...