11 Facts About Sophie Freud

Miriam Sophie Freud was an Austrian American psychosociologist, educator, and author.

Sophie Freud was born in Vienna, Austria, and was raised in what her mother, Ernestine "Esti" Sophie Freud, a speech therapist, referred to as an upper class Jewish ghetto.

Sophie Freud later became the director of Freud's Psychoanalytic Publishing House.

Sophie Freud was awarded a doctoral degree from Brandeis University in 1970.

Sophie Freud then taught at Simmons College, along with taking time to teach social work in Canada and across countries in Europe.

Sophie Freud went on to write a book entitled Living in the Shadow of the Freud Family for her mother, which was released in Germany as In the Shadow of the Freud Family: My Mother Experiences the 20th Century.

Sophie Freud served as the book review editor for the American Journal of Psychotherapy.

Sophie Freud was the last surviving granddaughter of Sigmund Sophie Freud, who she visited regularly on Sundays when she was a child.

Sophie Freud was a feminist who pushed for women's rights in academia and fought against the presumption that a woman who became pregnant would be unable to continue with education or, in her case, professional social work activities.

Sophie Freud married Paul Loewenstein in 1945; the couple had three children.

On June 3,2022, Sophie Freud died of pancreatic cancer at her home in Lincoln, Massachusetts, aged 97.