Elizabeth Danto
Elizabeth Ann Danto | |
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| Education | BA in anthropology (1973) Sarah Lawrence College MSc in social work (1984) Columbia University PhD in clinical social work (1996) New York University |
| Occupation | Professor of Social Welfare Emeritus |
| Employer(s) | Hunter College, City University of New York |
Elizabeth Ann Danto is professor emeritus of social welfare at Hunter College, City University of New York. She is the author of Freud's Free Clinics: Psychoanalysis & Social Justice, 1918-1938 (2005) which received both the Gradiva Award and the Goethe Prize, and Historical Research (2008). Dr. Danto writes and lectures internationally on the history of psychoanalysis as a system of thought and a marker of urban culture.
Selected works
- ‘Theory Has Its Pleasures’ – The Work of Anna Freud [Anna Freud, A Teoria tem seus Prazeres] Editora Perspectiva (São Paulo), 2025
- Freud/Tiffany – Anna Freud, Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham and the ‘Best Possible School’ (co-edited with A. Steiner-Strauss) Routledge, History of Psychoanalysis Series, 2018
- Historical Research. Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Freud's Free Clinics: Psychoanalysis & Social Justice, 1918-1938. Columbia University Press, 2005. (paperback issued April 2007) Psicoanálisis y justicia social, 1918-1938: las clínicas gratuitas de Freud, Spanish edition by Editorial Gredos (Madrid) 2013/ As Clínicas Públicas De Freud: Psicanályse E Justiça Social, Brazilian edition by Editora Perspectiva (São Paulo) 2019
Notes
- ↑ "Elizabeth Ann Danto" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, Hunter College, City University of New York.
Further reading
- "Interview with Elizabeth Ann Danto", Columbia University Press.
- Turner, Christopher. "Naughty Children", London Review of Books, Vol. 27 No. 19, 6 October 2005.
