Federn, Ernst

Ernst Federn, youngest son of eminent psychoanalyst Paul Federn, originally studied law, economics and history at the University of Vienna. His opposition to the rise of fascism in Austria during the 1930s led to his imprisonment for one year and, subsequently, to seven years internment in the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald. In 1948 he settled in the United States, studying social work at Columbia University and training in psychoanalysis. At the request of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Justice he returned to Vienna in 1972 to act as a consultant in Social Therapy attached to