Lucy Freeman

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Lucy Freeman


Born
in New York City, New York, The United States
December 13, 1916

Died
December 29, 2004

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Lucy Greenbaum Freeman was a reporter and an author. Her early coverage of psychiatry and mental health for The New York Times led to wider reporting on the subject. Ms. Freeman persuaded editors to allow coverage of the growth of psychiatry and the preservation of Sigmund Freud's private papers.

She graduated from Vermont's Bennington College with a B.A. in 1938 and was hired by The New York Times in 1940.

Her nonfiction books, ranging from detailed studies of Freud to those exploring sources of anger and anxiety, helped familiarize a popular audience with what had long been a hush-hush practice.

Ms. Freeman's first book, Fight Against Fears, recounted her own experience as a psychoanalysis patient who struggled to overcome her shy, whispery
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Fight Against Fears

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Why Norma Jean Killed Maril...

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Betrayal: The True Story of...

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Before I Kill More

3.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1977 — 2 editions
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Nightmare: Uncovering the S...

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Guilt: Letting Go

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Killers of the Mind: A Coll...

3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1974 — 3 editions
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The Beloved Prison: A Journ...

3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1989 — 4 editions
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