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 which received both the Gradiva Award and the Goethe Prize, and Historical Research. 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 Editora Perspectiva, 2025
  • Freud/Tiffany – Anna Freud, Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham and the ‘Best Possible School’ 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. Psicoanálisis y justicia social, 1918-1938: las clínicas gratuitas de Freud, Spanish edition by Editorial Gredos 2013/ As Clínicas Públicas De Freud: Psicanályse E Justiça Social, Brazilian edition by Editora Perspectiva 2019