Martha Freud A Biography

Who was Martha Bernays, the Hamburg-born woman who, after a long and turbulent engagement and against the opposition of her mother, married the Viennese doctor Sigmund Freud and lived at his side for more than fifty years as wife and mother of six? How did she feel, coming from a traditional Jewish family but living in a household with no religious background? How did she cope with the challenge of being married to the man whose work revolutionized our ways of thinking about human sexuality?

In this, the first biography of Martha Freud, Katja Behling portrays this remarkable woman, whose loyalty and steadfastness contributed in no small measure to the extraordinary success of psychoanalysis as it went from strength to strength and spread from Vienna to the four corners of the earth. 

Katja Behling was born in 1963. She studied for a PhD in Medicine and trained as a psychotherapist whilst also working as a medical journalist. She currently live in Hamburg and is the author of Zu Tisch bei Sigmund Freud (Vienna, 2000).

Foreword by Anton W. Freud
Preface

HAMBURG
A Hamburg Childhood
The Move to Vienna
Isaac Bernays, Martha’s Grandfather
Berman Bernays, Martha’s Father
Emmeline Bernays, Martha’s Mother
The Lovely Martha
Cupid’s Arrow
Wandsbek
The Cocaine Episode: an Opportunity Missed
Paris
Eli Bernays, Martha’s Brother
Till Death Us Do Part

VIENNA
Berggasse 19
Minna Bernays, Martha’s Sister
Sigmund and Martha Freud
Travel
Berlin
Friends
Martha as a Mother
The Freud Family
Martha’s Children
Later Years: She was ‘Normal'
Illnesses

LONDON
Emigration
Refuge in Hampstead
The Death of Her Husband
The Second World War
The Final Years
Martha’s Death
Martha and Her Influence on Psychoanalysis
Martha Freud, an Epilogue

APPENDIX
Chronological Table
Bibliography
Notes
Illustrations
Acknowledgements

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