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Thursday Psychoanalyst of the Week Dorothy Burlingham 1891-1979... Please share your favorite quotes, articles, pictures, videos, memories and free associations! Dorothy Trimble Tiffany Burlingham (11 October 1891 19 November 1979) was an American child psychoanalyst and educator. A lifelong friend and partner of child psychoanalyst Anna Freud, Burlingham is known for her joint work with Freud on the analysis of children. During the 1960s and 70s, Burlingham directed the Research Group on the Study of Blind Children at the Hampstead Clinic in London. Her 1979 article on blind infants, "To Be Blind in a Sighted World," published in The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, is considered to be a landmark of empathic scientific observation. Burlingham was the daughter of Louise Wakeman Knox and artist Louis Comfort Tiffany, and the granddaughter of Charles Lewis Tiffany, founder of Tiffany & Co. Burlingham moved to London in 1938 along with the Freuds, who were fleeing Nazi anti-semitism. After Sigmund Freud's death the following year, Dorothy Burlingham settled at 2 Maresfield Gardens, not far from Anna Freud, and in 1940 she moved into the Freud home at 20 Maresfield Gardens, where she lived out her days. The two, who would remain partners for the next forty years, would found the Hampstead War Nurseries during World War II, and their joint work there would lead to the publication of Infants Without families (1943). They would also go on to found, along with Helen Ross, in 1951, the Hampstead Clinic, a center which "set out to provide therapy and assistance to families, to treat disturbed and handicapped children irrespective of their problems, social background or past history, and at the same time to offer aspiring analysts the most balanced and rich training possible." Both Burlingham and Freud would work at Hampstead until retirement. Burlingham died in London in 1979. Her ashes rest in the "Freud Corner" at the Golders Green Crematorium, London, next to those of Anna Freud (who died in 1982) and of other members of the Freud family, including Sigmund Freud. Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Burlingham

Strong Strong Recommendation for "The Forty Year Old Version" on Netflix. Wonderfully written and acted.

THE DECALOGUE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS Anna Freud formulated nine mechanisms of defence regarding the way we see and respond to the world, i.e. they represent psychoan...alysis in a nutshell, to wit: 1. Denial 2. Projection and Introjection 3.Withdrawal into fantasy 4.Displacement 5. Rationalization 6 Intellectualization 7.Externalization 8. Isolation of affect 9. Repression, the fundamental and most toxic of all, because it makes us feel anxious without knowing why. There’s a tenth one (which makes it a Decalogue) as follows: We do what has been done to us, despite all claims to the contrary. PS: I shall not be available for about a week as a result of a medical procedure. See more

Everyone must watch the 1.5 hour Netflix Documentary "The Social Dilemma". So important for us and our kids. "Safe the life of my child, cried the desperate mother"--Paul Simon

Important sad and moving

From fellow ApsaA Psychoanalyst, Jan Van Schaik

Dunning Krueger at work in the highest office of the land. Lack of awareness of lack of awareness. Intellectual equivalent of anosognosia.