Exceptional vintage matte-finish 6.5 x 9 photo of the pioneering psychoanalyst in a near-profile pose, affixed to its original 9 x 12 mount, signed on the mount in fountain pen, "Sigm. Freud, 1936." In fine condition, with staining to the bottom edge of the mount, which could easily be matted out to produce a stunning display.
The consignor notes that this signed photo was presented to Dr. Joseph Jules Michaels by Anna Freud, Sigmund's sixth and youngest child. Dr. Michaels was a professor of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis at Harvard University from 1936 until his death in 1966. Dr. Michaels' extensive research dealt with the causes of delinquency and impulse character disorders. He was the author of more than 90 articles and books in the field. Beginning in 1933, he trained at the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute as a Commonwealth Fund Fellow. During WWII, as a major in the Medical Corps, he was chief of neuropsychiatric service at the Newton D. Baker Hospital, later receiving the Legion of Merit. Anna Freud gifted this photo to Michaels in Vienna as the two of them studied dream interpretation together.
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