Tag child welfare

January 24, 2012
in Current Affairs, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Social Science

A Conversation with the Late Elisabeth Young-Bruehl on Childism

January 24, 2012
in Current Affairs, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Social Science

With heavy hearts and minds, we said good-bye to Elisabeth Young-Bruehl at the beginning of December, who, over her career as a psychoanalyst, writer, biographer, and philosopher, contributed immensely to our understanding of humanity and modern social conscience. In the Chronicle Review, Peter Monaghan wrote a poignant tribute to her

December 26, 2011
in Current Affairs, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Science

Childism Continues

December 26, 2011
in Current Affairs, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Science

Follow @yaleSCIbooks In the past weeks, we covered the deaths associated with a book on childrearing, bringing it into conversation with Childism: Confronting Prejudice Against Children, a new book by psychoanalyst and writer Elisabeth Young-Bruehl. All too sadly, it was not long before we shared the news that Young-Bruehl passed