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Françoise Dolto

This blog talks about Françoise Dolto, a French Psychoanalyst and Female Pioneer in Child Psychoanalysis.
Read more to learn about her life and important contributions to the field.

Freud and his soul-searching antiquities

As Ernest Jones (1957) says in his masterly biography of Freud, ‘Freud was all his life engrossed with the great problem of how man came to be man.’ In his lifelong search for an answer to this question, Freud had learned that the human mind and human civilization originated from man’s past experiences and past […]

The Body Image Project

We considered the theme of the body image through a psychoanalytic lens, focusing on the fate of the female body in contemporary visual culture. 

Celebrating the Revised Standard Edition at the Freud Museum

On Thursday 20th June 2024 we celebrated the publication of the Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud – a ground-breaking update on the Standard Edition first published 60 years ago, which followed the Hogarth Press first publishing Freud’s work in 1924.    We had the honour and pleasure of welcoming to the […]