Esther Freud Esther Freud Esther Freud (born 2 May 1963) is a British novelist. Born in London, Freud is the daughter of painter Lucian Freud and Bernardine Coverley. She is also a great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud and niece of Clement Freud. She travelled extensively with her mother as a child, and returned to London at the age of 16 to train as an actress at The Drama Centre. She has worked in television and theatre as both actress and writer. Her first credited television appearance, though inauspicious, was as a terrified diner in "The Bill" in 1984, running frantically out of a
Unauthorized Freud Unauthorized Freud Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront a Legend is a 1998 book about Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, edited by the critic Frederick Crews. The book received both positive reviews, crediting Crews with having assembled a coherent case against Freud's theories and therapeutic techniques, and more mixed evaluations, which criticized Crews for lacking objectivity. "Unauthorized Freud" is a collection of critical articles about Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis. In addition to Crews, the contributors include the critic Stanley Fish, the historians David Stannard and Peter Swales, the philologist Sebastiano Timpanaro, the philosophers Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, Frank Cioffi, Barbara Von Eckardt, Ernest