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During the early 1920s, Fräulein Anna Freud, following in the footsteps of her father, began to practise the craft of psychoanalysis. By 1922, she had become a full member of the Wiener Psychoanalytische Vereinigung [Vienna Psycho-Analytical Society]. But whereas Professor Sigmund Freud spent virtually all of his time indoors, working with a stream of patients in hourly succession, Anna Freud took to the streets and, as a young woman, strove to bring psychoanalytical ideas into the community.
In due course, Anna Freud developed a special friendship with an American heiress, Mrs Dorothy Trimble Tiffany Burlingham, daughter of the famous artist and designer Louis Comfort Tiffany, and granddaughter of the jeweller Charles Lewis Tiffany. Trapped in a deeply unhappy marriage, the desperate Mrs Burlingham had transplanted herself and her four children to Vienna in the hope of seeking psychological assistance. After a period of psychoanalytical treatment with Dr Theodor Reik, a leading Viennese practitioner, Mrs Burlingham undertook further analysis from Sigmund Freud himself. As Dorothy Burlingham became increasingly immersed in the psychoanalytical movement, she forged an intimate relationship with Anna Freud and, before long, rented a flat at Berggasse 19, the very building in which the Freud family lived. We cannot know with complete certainty whether Fräulein Freud and Mrs Burlingham became lovers or whether they merely cohabited - but, certainly, from the mid-1920s until Mrs Burlingham's death in 1979, the lives of these two women became intimately intertwined.
As a woman of considerable wealth, Dorothy Burlingham found herself in the privileged position of funding various psychoanalytical projects, she and Anna Freud created a special school for young children in the Hietzing district of Vienna, founded on Freudian principles. The two women collaborated with Frau Eva Rosenfeld, one of Anna Freud's close friends (and a future analysand of Sigmund Freud), and in an act