Anna Freud and ‘The Conscience of Society’ by Elizabeth Ann Danto and Alexandra Steiner-Strauss

July 9, 2019 | Video

Drawing on a wealth of still and video archival materials, this 15 minute digital exhibit brings to life the fascinating intersection of psychoanalysis and education. Out of the cultural and political ferment of inter-war Vienna emerged the Hietzing School, founded in the 1920s by Anna Freud and Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham.

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