BURIED TOGETHER
Partner Anna Freud
Queer Places:
2 Maresfield Gardens, London NW3 5SU, Regno Unito
Freud Museum London, 20 Maresfield Gardens, London NW3 5SX, Regno Unito
Golders Green Crematorium, 62 Hoop Ln, London NW11 7NL, Regno Unito
Dorothy
Trimble Tiffany Burlingham (11 October 1891 – 19 November 1979) was an
American child psychoanalyst and educator. A lifelong friend and partner of
child psychoanalyst Anna Freud,
Burlingham is known for her joint work with Freud on the analysis of children.
During the 1960s and 70s, Burlingham directed the Research Group on the Study
of Blind Children at the Hampstead Clinic in London. Her 1979 article on blind
infants, "To Be Blind in a Sighted World," published in The Psychoanalytic
Study of the Child, is considered to be a landmark of empathic scientific
observation.[1]
Burlingham was the daughter of artist Louis Comfort Tiffany and the
granddaughter of Charles Lewis Tiffany, founder of Tiffany & Co.
Dorothy Trimble Tiffany was born in New York City. She married a New York
City surgeon, Robert Burlingham, in 1914; however the couple separated in 1921
on account of Robert's bipolar disorder. Burlingham was also now raising four
children, one of whom, a son, had developed a skin disorder, which was
diagnosed to be psychosomatic. This was also the time that the new field of
psychoanalysis was becoming better known both in Europe and the United States.
Holding out hope for a psychoanalytic cure for her son, Burlingham moved to
Vienna with her four children in 1925. She soon began a lay analysis with
Theodore Reik, before she moved to start an analysis with Sigmund Freud. She
also met Anna Freud, who was already an analyst, and who took in all the
Burlingham children as her patients. Soon, the Burlingham boy's skin disorder
disappeared. This turn of events led Burlingham to become a lay analyst
herself and, in preparation for it, to complete an analysis with Sigmund
Freud, even though by now she had become personally close to Anna Freud. Her
children's analysis, as well as her own analysis lasted for the rest of their
days.
Burlingham moved to London in 1938 along with the Freuds, who were fleeing
Nazi anti-semitism. After Sigmund Freud's death the following year, Dorothy
Burlingham settled at 2 Maresfield Gardens, not far from Anna Freud, and in
1940 she moved into the Freud home at 20 Maresfield Gardens, where she lived
out her days. The two, who would remain partners for the next forty years,
would found the Hampstead War Nurseries during World War II, and their joint
work there would lead to the publication of Infants Without families
(1943). They would also go on to found, along with Helen Ross, in 1951, the
Hampstead Clinic, a center which "set out to provide therapy and assistance to
families, to treat disturbed and handicapped children irrespective of their
problems, social background or past history, and at the same time to offer
aspiring analysts the most balanced and rich training possible." Both
Burlingham and Freud would work at Hampstead until retirement.
Burlingham died in London in 1979. Her ashes rest in the Golders Green
Crematorium, London, next to those of Anna Freud (who died in 1982) and others
in the Freud family, including Sigmund Freud.
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