Philip Bromberg, Ph.D.

Education

B.A. 1953, New York University
M.A. 1961, New School for Social Research
Ph.D. 1967, New York University

Areas of Research/Interest

  • Human-relatedness as the source of therapeutic action in psychoanalysis
  • The central role of dissociation in normal and pathological mental functioning
  • Why difficult patients are difficult
  • Developmental trauma, enactment, and the process of healing and growth

Publications

Bromberg, P. M. (2017), Psychotherapy as the Growth of Wholeness: The Negotiation of Individuality and Otherness. In: M. Solomon & D. Siegel, Eds. How People Change. New York: Norton.

 

Bromberg, P. M. (2017), Reflections on the Concept of a Traumatic Field. In: J. Petrucelli & S. Schoen, Eds.  Unknowable, Unspeakable, and Unsprung: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Truth, Scandal, Secrets, and Lies. New York: Routledge, pp. 33-41. 


Bromberg, P.M. (2014), Sullivan as Pragmatic Visionary: Operationalist and OperRelationalist. Contemp. Psychoanal., 50: 509-530.
  

Greif, D. & Livingston, R. H. (2013), An Interview with Philip M. Bromberg, Ph.D. Contemp. Psychoanal., 49:323-355.

 

Bromberg. P. M. (2013), Hidden in Plain Sight: Thoughts on Imagination and the Lived Unconscious. Psychoanal. Dial., 23:1-14.

 

Bromberg, P. M. (2012), Stumbling along and hanging-in: If this be technique, make the most of it!  Psychoanal. Inq., 32:3-17. 

Bromberg, P.M. (2012), Credo. Psychoanal. Dial., 22: 273-278.

 

Bromberg, P. M. (2011), The Gill/Bromberg Correspondence.  Psychoanal. Dial., 21:243-252.

Bromberg, P. M. (2011), "Afterword" to the Gill/Bromberg Correspondence.  Psychoanal. Dial., 21:264-267.

 

Bromberg, P. M. (2010), Minding the dissociative gap.  Contemp. Psychoanal., 46:19-31.

Bromberg, P. M. (2010), The nearness of you: Navigating selfhood, otherness, and uncertainty. In:  Knowing, Not-Knowing and Sort-of-Knowing: Psychoanalysis and the Experience of Uncertainty, ed. J. Petrucelli. London: Karnac, pp. 22-45.

Bromberg, P. M. (2010), Commentary on Carola M. Kaplan's "Navigating Trauma in Joseph Conrad's  Victory: A Voyage from Sigmund Freud to Philip M. Bromberg."  Psychoanal. Dial., 20:449-455.

Bromberg, P. M.  (2009), Multiple self-states, the relational mind, and dissociation: A psychoanalytic perspective. In: Dissociation And The Dissociative Disorders: DSM-V And Beyond, ed. P. F. Dell & J. A. O’Neil. New York: Routledge, pp. 637-652.

 

Bromberg, P. M. (2009), Truth, human relatedness, and the analytic process: An interpersonal/relational perspective.   Internat. J. Psychoanal., 90: 347-361.

Bromberg, P. M. (2008), "Grown-up" words: An interpersonal/relational perspective on unconscious fantasy.  Psychoanal. Inq., 28:131-150.