Elizabeth Danto

Elizabeth Ann Danto
Nationality	American
Education	BA in anthropology (1973) Sarah Lawrence College MSc in social work (1984) Columbia University Certificate in Alcoholism Studies (1986) Postgraduate Center for Mental Health 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.[1]

Selected works

• 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.

Notes

1. "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.