Freud writer wins award
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White Plains writer Lynne Lehrman Weiner knew Sigmund Freud as a child. In fact, she says that at 2 years old she recalls sitting on his lap, not sprawling on his couch. That was in 1928 when she and her family were living in Vienna. Her father, Dr. Philip R. Lehrman, was a psychoanalyst and student of Freud’s from 1928 -29, which explains how this happened.
Lynne was so fascinated knowing of this experience that she made a documentary with film and pictures that her father shot of Freud and his family including his wife Anna. A writer and editor, Lynne also put together a book, “Sigmund Freud Through Lehrman’s Lens” in 2000 to tell more of the story.
Weiner, who has lived in White Plains since 1962, has won the 2009 Gradiva Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. (The original publisher was Psychosozial Verlag in Germany with editions in English.)
Here is a description of her work from the Marsh Agency, a literary group:
Lynne Lehrman Weiner, the editor and Lehrman’s daughter, has provided a brief but elucidating biographical introduction and has persuaded some of the world’s leading scholars in the field to write essays on the period filling out the story with local colour.
I tried to put together a Q&A interview with Lynne Lehrman Weiner but our world is different than Vienna in 1928 — scheduling and computer problems got in our way. Nevermind there are other ways. Check out this Q&A link from The New York Times in 2000.
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