American psychologist and psychoanalyst (1931–2020)
Philip M. Bromberg (1931 – 18 May 2020) was an American psychologist and psychoanalyst who was actively involved in the training of mental health professionals throughout the United States.
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.
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.
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. 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. He also developed the vernacular for the multiplicity of self-states to describe these processes.
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