World-Renowned Psychoanalyst Receives Austrian Citizenship

More+Events ♦ Published: July 4, 2022; 11:17 ♦ (Vindobona)

Erika Freeman, a world-renowned Austro-American psychologist and psychotherapist, was granted Austrian citizenship last week after she was forced to flee her native Vienna to the US at the age of 12 to avoid deportation by the Nazis. She is one of 14,903 survivors and descendants of victims of the Nazi regime who have been granted Austrian citizenship since 2019.

Erika Freeman is known as a mental supporter of numerous celebrities and Hollywood legends. / Picture: © Magistrat der Stadt Wien / Christian Jobst / PID

The world-renowned psychologist and psychotherapist Erika Freeman was awarded Austrian citizenship on the occasion of her 95th birthday.

The lady, who was the mental support of numerous celebrities and Hollywood legends such as Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando or Woody Allen, among others, was born in Vienna in 1927 under the name Erika Polesciuk and had to flee her home country to…