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Click Here to Read:   Biography review: “Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open,” by Phoebe Hoban by Kirkus Reviews on the GuideLives Books website on April 26, 2014,

Click Here to Read:  Biography of Lucian Freud reveals chaotic life by James Lane on the 3 News website on March 23,  2014.
An art expert holds Lucian Freud’s “Self Portrait” (Reuters file)

Click Here to Read: Sotheby’s to auction painter Lucian Freud’s love letters on the South China Morning News Post webstie on February 10, 2014.

Lucian Freud’s letters to a girlfriend, Felicity Hellaby, whom he met at art school,…

Dear Colleagues, back from the APsaA meetings, I return to report on this week’s international psychoanalytic website’s activity. When you log into the website this weekend, I suggest that you scan the previous week’s posts as I did not have time to cover it in this mailing. 1) Please read the excellent review by Nathan […]

Click Here to Read:  Sigmund Freud’s Sicko Grandson: Cruel Lover, Terrible Father, One Hell of a Painter. Two new biographical studies and dual exhibits in Vienna plumb the psychodrama of the great Lucian Freud By Vladislav Davidzon on the Tablet website on January 23, 2014.  

Click Here to Read:   The genius with 500 lovers: Awesomely gifted, magnetically attractive. But artist Lucian Freud, as this new biography reveals, was also a frighteningly ruthless seducer of women by Geordie Greig  on the UK Mail Online website on  September 13, 2013. Artist’s muse: Lucian Freud poses with Alexi Williams-Wynn, a lover, for a photo entitled […]

Dear Colleagues, It is perhaps fitting that on a day that the whole world mourns the passing of Nelson Mandela, we should be reading the posts on our international psychoanalytic website. Clearly we are trying to reach the whole world and, though this is not explicitly stated in the “goals” of psychoanalysis, we are obviously […]

Click Here to Read:  A Portrait Painted in Heavy Strokes: ‘Breakfast With Lucian,’ by Geordie Greig, Reviewed By Dwight Garner in The New York Times n November 21, 2013. The artist Lucian Freud. Stephan Agostini/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images      

Dear Colleagues, According to recent news and events, the state of healthcare in the USA as well as the rest of the world seems to need a improvement. Thus what is happening to psychoanalysis and what we are doing about it is in step with all the changes evident in the 21st century. Our website […]

Click Here to Read:  Francis Bacon painting of Lucian Freud expected to sell for over $85m at auction by Jess Denham on the Independent website on November 12, 2013. Click Here to Read: At $142.4 Million, Triptych Is the Most Expensive Artwork Ever Sold at an Auction by Carol Vogel in The New York Times on […]