British psychoanalysis, Freud translation

Joan Riviere

1883 – 1962

Joan Riviere was a British psychoanalyst and one of the foremost translators of Sigmund Freud into English, serving as translation editor of the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis from 1920 to 1937 and supervising key volumes of Freud's Collected Papers. A founding member of the British Psycho-Analytical Society and a central figure in the Kleinian school, she trained analysts including John Bowlby and Donald Winnicott.