About
Elizabeth Lunbeck is the Chair and Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University’s Department of the History of Science, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. A historian of the human sciences, she specializes in the history of psychoanalysis, psychiatry, and psychology, with a focus on gender, power, and modernity.
- Areas of Research: Human Sciences, Medical Humanities, Psychology & Theories of Mind, Women & Gender Studies.
- Books: The Psychiatric Persuasion (prized by John Hope Franklin and Forkosch awards), The Americanization of Narcissism (Courage to Dream Prize), and co-edited works like Histories of Scientific Observation.
- Awards:
- John Hope Franklin Prize (1995)
- Morris D. Forkosch Prize (1995)
- History of Women in Science Prize (1995)
- Courage to Dream Prize (2014)
- Current Projects: A book on psychotherapy’s future amid pandemic challenges, racial reckoning, and technology; smaller works on personality disorders.
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