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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Patrick Butler Social policy editor

Freud Museum faces call for inquiry over bullying and board misconduct claims

The Freud Museum: it is a large early 20th century brick building with a blue front door and white windowframes, in a leafy setting with long garden path between hedges.
The Freud Museum, in Hampstead, north-west London, is dedicated to promoting the intellectual and cultural legacy of Sigmund Freud and his daughter, Anna. Photograph: Rasid Necati Aslim/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

A bitter row at the Freud Museum in London has resulted in it facing calls for an official investigation into allegations of political interference and “autocratic” board decision-making that critics say put the future of the institution at risk.

The museum, in Hampstead, was the final home of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, and his daughter Anna Freud, a children’s psychoanalyst, and is dedicated to promoting their intellectual and cultural legacy.

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