Muriel Drazien (September 7, 1938 – April 14, 2018) was an American psychoanalyst working first in Paris and then in Rome, a Lacanian and one of the three Tripode[1] that fostered the teaching of Jacques Lacan in Italy.

Born in New York from parents of middle European Ashkenazi descent she was educated at Columbia University.

There she studied psychoanalysis under the direct tuition of Jacques Lacan and went on to work with many French exponents of his discipline, including Françoise Dolto, Maud Mannoni, Moustapha Safouan.

In 1983, she founded the Psychoanalytic Association Cosa Freudiana [6] to which she also acted as chairperson.

[7] In 2002, in conjunction with the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and she founded the Laboratorio Freudiano [8] where she acted as both director and teacher.