Background
Burlingham was the daughter of artist Louis Comfort Tiffany and the granddaughter of Charles Lewis Tiffany, founder of Tiffany & Company Dorothy Trimble Tiffany was born in New York City.
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Burlingham was the daughter of artist Louis Comfort Tiffany and the granddaughter of Charles Lewis Tiffany, founder of Tiffany & Company Dorothy Trimble Tiffany was born in New York City.
During the 1960s and 70s, Burlingham directed the Research Group on the Study of Blind Children at the Hampstead Clinic in London. Her 1979 article on blind infants, "To Be Blind in a Sighted World," published in the Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, is considered to be a landmark of empathic scientific observation. Burlingham was also now raising four children, one of whom, a son, had developed a skin disorder, which was diagnosed to be psychosomatic.
This was also the time that the new field of psychoanalysis was becoming better known both in Europe and the United States.
She soon began a lay analysis with Theodore Reik, before she moved to start an analysis with Sigmund Freud. She also met Anna Freud, who was already an analyst, and who took in all the Burlingham children as her patients.
Soon, the Burlingham boy"s skin disorder disappeared. This turn of events led Burlingham to become a lay analyst herself and, in preparation for it, to complete an analysis with Sigmund Freud, even though by now she had become personally close to Anna Freud.
Her children"s analysis, as well as her own analysis lasted for the rest of their days.