Philip M. Bromberg (1931 – 18 May 2020)[1] was an American psychologist and psychoanalyst who was actively involved in the training of mental health professionals throughout the United States.[2]

Philip Bromberg
Born1931 (1931)
Died18 May 2020(2020-05-18) (aged 89–90)
NationalityAmerican
Known forTheory of Self-States
Scientific career
FieldsClinical Psychoanalysis

He was a supervising psychoanalyst, supervisor of psychotherapy, and member of the teaching faculty at William Alanson White Institute; a clinical assistant professor of psychology at Cornell University Medical College; assistant attending psychologist at New York Hospital-Payne Whitney Clinic; and a member of the teaching and supervisory faculty at the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.[3]

Life

Education

In 1953, he earned his bachelor's degree at New York University. In obtained his master's degree in 1961 at The New School for Social Research. He earned his doctorate at New York University in 1967.[4]

Work

Bromberg was a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute and Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.[3] He was a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and ABPP Diplomate in Clinical Psychology. He was Co-editor Emeritus of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and was on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Psychoanalytic Inquiry.

Bromberg was most widely known as the author of Standing in the Spaces: Essays on Clinical Process, Trauma, and Dissociation (1998), Awakening the Dreamer: Clinical Journeys (2006), and The Shadow of the Tsunami: and the Growth of the Relational Mind (2011).

For over 40 years he wrote extensively concerning human mental development and the patient/therapist relationship, and presented an interpersonal/relational point of view that emphasizes self-organization, states of consciousness, dissociation, and multiple self-states.

Multiple self-states

Within the context of self-organization of systems theory, Bromberg highlighted the role of developmental trauma in shame-based dissociative processes and its impact on relatedness.[2] He also developed the vernacular for the multiplicity of self-states to describe these processes.[2]

Publications

Monographs

Edited Volumes

Papers

Notes

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  2. ^ a b c d Greif, Don; Livingstone, Ruth H. (2013). "An Interview with Philip M. Bromberg ,Ph.D." (PDF). Contemporary Psychoanalysis. 49 (3). New York, N.Y.: 323–355. doi:10.1080/00107530.2013.10779253. S2CID 143735508.
  3. ^ a b c Bromberg, P.M. (1979). "Interpersonal Psychoanalysis and Regression". Contemporary Psychoanalysis. 15 (4): 647–655. doi:10.1080/00107530.1979.10745602. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  4. ^ "Philip Bromberg, Ph.D." NYU | College of Arts & Science.
  5. ^ Bromberg, P.M. (1974). "On Psychoanalytic Training—Introduction: The Challenge of Self-Examination". Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  6. ^ Bromberg, P.M. (1979-10-07). "The Use of Detachment in Narcissistic and Borderline Conditions". The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis. 7 (4): 593–600. doi:10.1521/jaap.1.1979.7.4.593. PMID 511640. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  7. ^ Bromberg, P.M. (1980). "Empathy, anxiety and reality: A view from the bridge". Contemporary Psychoanalysis. 16 (2): 223–236. doi:10.1080/00107530.1980.10745620. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  8. ^ Bromberg, P.M. (1980). "Sullivan's Concept of Consensual Validation". Contemporary Psychoanalysis. 16 (2): 237–248. doi:10.1080/00107530.1980.10745621. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  9. ^ Bromberg, P.M. (1982). "The Supervisory Process and Parallel Process in Psychoanalysis". Contemporary Psychoanalysis. 18: 92–111. doi:10.1080/00107530.1982.10745678. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  10. ^ Bromberg, P.M. (1983). "The Mirror and the Mask—On Narcissism and Psychoanalytic Growth" (PDF). Mindsplain. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  11. ^ Bromberg, P.M. (1984). "Getting into Oneself and Out of One's Self". Contemporary Psychoanalysis. 20 (3): 439–448. doi:10.1080/00107530.1984.10745743. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  12. ^ Bromberg, P.M. (1984). "The Third Ear". The third ear. In: Clinical Perspectives on the Supervision of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. Critical Issues in Psychiatry. Springer. pp. 29–44. doi:10.1007/978-1-4899-3653-0_2. ISBN 978-1-4899-3653-0. Retrieved 2020-07-10. ((cite book)): |website= ignored (help)
  13. ^ Bromberg, P.M (1984). "On the Occurrence of the Isakower Phenomenon in a Schizoid Disorder". Contemporary Psychoanalysis. 20 (4): 600–624. doi:10.1080/00107530.1984.10745756. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  14. ^ Bromberg, P.M. (1991). "Artist and Analyst". Contemporary Psychoanalysis. 27 (2): 289–300. doi:10.1080/00107530.1991.10747166. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  15. ^ Bromberg, P.M. (1991). "On knowing one's patient inside out: The aesthetics of unconscious communication". Psychoanalytic Dialogues. 1 (4): 399–422. doi:10.1080/10481889109538911. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  16. ^ Bromberg, P.M. (1993). "Shadow and substance: a relational perspective on clinical process". Psychoanalytic Psychology. 10 (2): 147–168. doi:10.1037/h0079464.
  17. ^ Bromberg, P.M. (1994). ""Speak! That I May See You": Some Reflections on Dissociation, Reality, and Psychoanalytic Listening". Psychoanalytic Dialogues. 4 (4): 517–547. doi:10.1080/10481889409539037. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  18. ^ Stern D.B., Mann C., Kantor, S., Schlesinger, G. (1995). Pioneers of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis. Routledge. ISBN 978-0881632163.((cite book)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  19. ^ Bromberg, P.M. (1995). "Resistance, Object-Usage, and Human Relatedness". Contemporary Psychoanalysis. 31 (2): 173–191. doi:10.1080/00107530.1995.10746903. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  20. ^ Bromberg, P.M. (2003). "Something Wicked This Way Comes: Trauma, Dissociation, and Conflict: The Space Where Psychoanalysis, Cognitive Science, and Neuroscience Overlap" (PDF). Mindsplain. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
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