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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

December 7, 2011
in Current Affairs, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Science

In Memoriam: Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

December 7, 2011
in Current Affairs, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Science

We at Yale University Press are very sad to report the untimely passing of Elisabeth Young-Bruehl last Thursday, December 1, at age 65. As a psychoanalyst and philosopher, Young-Bruehl brought her interest in the ideologies of prejudice to her many books, including her YUP biographies of Anna Freud and mentor