Dorothy Burlingham

Dorothy Trimble Tiffany Burlingham (11 October 1891 – 19 November 1979) was an American child psychoanalyst and educator. She had a same-sex relationship with Anna Freud and also was a partner of her work and investigation, 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.

Dorothy Burlingham
Burlingham with her son Robert Burlingham Jr. ca. 1915
Born
Dorothy Trimble Tiffany

11 October 1891
New York City, US
Died19 November 1979(1979-11-19) (aged 88)
London, England
Resting placeGolders Green Crematorium
OccupationPsychoanalyst
Known forObservations of
blind children;
Child analysis
Spouse
Robert Burlingham
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(m. 1914; sep 1921)​
PartnerAnna Freud
Children4
Parents
  • Louis Comfort Tiffany (father)
  • Louise Wakeman Knox (mother)
RelativesCharles Lewis Tiffany (grandfather)

Burlingham was the daughter of Louise Wakeman Knox and artist Louis Comfort Tiffany, and the granddaughter of Charles Lewis Tiffany, founder of Tiffany & Co.

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