A centenarian's retrospective on psychoanalysis: an interview with Hedda Bolgar 1

Hedda Bolgar was born in Switzerland on August 19, 1909. She was the only child of two influential parents; her father was a social activist, history scholar, and diplomat representing Hungary, and her mother was the first female journalist on the staff of a German language newspaper in Budapest. Her family’s political position was considered controversial, as her mother was a feminist and socialist, and her father was involved in aiding the start of the Hungarian Revolution in 1918.