Elizabeth Danto

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

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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.