Philip M. Bromberg (1931 – 18 May 2020) was an American

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and

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who was actively involved in the training of

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s throughout the United States. He was a supervising psychoanalyst, supervisor of psychotherapy, and member of the teaching faculty at

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; a clinical assistant professor of psychology at

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; 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

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. In obtained his master's degree in 1961 at

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. He earned his doctorate at

in 1967.

Work

Bromberg was a Training and Supervising Analyst at the

and Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He was a Fellow of the

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and ABPP Diplomate in

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. 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

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and the patient/therapist relationship, and presented an interpersonal/relational point of view that emphasizes

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, states of consciousness, dissociation, and multiple self-states.

Multiple self-states

Within the context of

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, Bromberg highlighted the role of developmental trauma in shame-based

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processes and its impact on relatedness. He also developed the vernacular for the multiplicity of self-states to describe these processes.

Publications

Monographs

* Bromberg, P.M. (1998). ''Standing in the spaces: Essays on clinical process, trauma, and dissociation''. New Jersey: Analytic Press. * Bromberg, P.M. (2006). ''Awakening the dreamer: Clinical journeys''. New Jersey: Analytic Press. * Bromberg, P.M. (2011). ''The shadow of the tsunami: and the growth of the relational mind''. New York: Routledge.

Edited Volumes

* Caligor, L., Bromberg, P.M., & Meltzer, J.D., eds. (1984). ''Clinical perspectives on the supervision of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.'' New York: Plenum Press. * Cooper, A.M., ed. (2006). ''Contemporary psychoanalysis in America: Leading analysts present their work''. Virginia: American Psychiatric Publishing. * Dell, P.F. & O’Neil, J., eds. (2009). ''Dissociation and the dissociative disorders: DSM-V and beyond''. New York: Routledge. * Jurist, E., Slade, A. & Bergner, S., eds. (2008). ''Mind to mind: Infant research, neuroscience, and psychoanalysis''. New York: Other Press. * Lionells, M., Fiscalini, J., Mann, C.H., & Stern, D.B., eds. (1995). ''Handbook of interpersonal psychoanalysis''. New Jersey: Analytic Press. * Petrucelli, J. & Stuart, C., eds. (2001). ''Hungers and compulsions: The psychodynamic treatment of eating disorders and addictions''. New Jersey:

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. * Petrucelli, J., ed. (2006). ''Longing: Psychoanalytic musings on desire''. London: Karnac Books. * Petrucelli, J., ed. (2010). ''Knowing, not-knowing and sort-of-knowing: Psychoanalysis and the experience of uncertainty''. London: Karnac Books.

Papers

* Bromberg, P.M. (1974). On Psychoanalytic Training—Introduction: The Challenge of Self-Examination. Contemp. Psychoanal., 10:239-241. * Bromberg, P.M. (1979). Interpersonal Psychoanalysis and Regression. Contemp. Psychoanal., 15:647-655. * Bromberg, P.M. (1979). The Use of Detachment in Narcissistic and Borderline Conditions. J. Amer. Acad. Psychoanal., 7:593-600. * Bromberg, P.M. (1979), The schizoid personality: The psychopathology of stability. In: Integrating Ego Psychology and Object Relations Theory, ed. L. Saretsky, G.D. Goldman & D.S. Milman. Iowa: Kendall/Hunt, pp. 226–242. * Bromberg, P.M. (1980). Empathy, Anxiety and Reality—A View from the Bridge. Contemp. Psychoanal., 16:223-236. * Bromberg, P.M. (1980). Sullivan's Concept of Consensual Validation and the Therapeutic Action of Psychoanalysis. Contemp. Psychoanal., 16:237-248. * Bromberg, P.M. (1982). The Supervisory Process and Parallel Process in Psychoanalysis. Contemp. Psychoanal., 18:92-110. * Bromberg, P.M. (1983). The Mirror and the Mask: On Narcissism and Psychoanalytic Growth. Contemp. Psychoanal., 19:359-387. * Bromberg, P.M. (1984). Getting Into Oneself and out of One's Self: On Schizoid Processes. Contemp. Psychoanal., 20:439-447. * Bromberg, P.M. (1984). The third ear. In: Clinical Perspectives on the Supervision of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, ed. L. Caligor, P.M.Bromberg, & J.D. Meltzer. New York: Plenum Press, pp. 29–44. * Bromberg, P.M. (1984). On the Occurrence of the Isakower Phenomenon in a Schizoid Disorder. Contemp. Psychoanal., 20:600-624. * Bromberg, P.M. (1986). Discussion of "The Wishy-Washy Personality" by Arnold Goldberg. Contemp. Psychoanal., 22:374-386. * Bromberg, P.M. (1989). Discussion of "Keeping the Analysis Alive and Creative" by Gloria Friedman. Contemp. Psychoanal., 25:337-345. * Bromberg, P.M. (1991). Artist and Analyst. Contemp. Psychoanal., 27:289-299. * Bromberg, P.M. (1991). Introduction to Symposium: "Reality and the Analytic Relationship." Psychoanal. Dial., 1:8-12. * Bromberg, P.M. (1991). On Knowing One's Patient Inside Out: The Aesthetics of Unconscious Communication. Psychoanal. Dial., 1:399-422. * Bromberg, P.M. (1991). Reply to Discussion by Enid Balint. Psychoanal. Dial., 1:431-437. * Bromberg, P.M. (1992). The Difficult Patient or the Difficult Dyad?—Some Basic Issues. Contemp. Psychoanal., 28:495-502. * Bromberg, P.M. (1993). Discussion of "Obsessions and/or Obsessionality: Perspectives on Psychoanalytic Treatment" by Walter E. Spear. Contemp. Psychoanal., 29:90-100. * Bromberg, P.M. (1993). Shadow and Substance: A Relational Perspective on Clinical Process. Psychoanal. Psychol., 10:147-168. * Bromberg, P.M. (1994). "Speak! That I May See You": Some Reflections on Dissociation, Reality, and Psychoanalytic Listening. Psychoanal. Dial., 4:517-547. * Bromberg, P.M (1995). Introduction to David E. Schecter's "Attachment, Detachment, and Psychoanalytic Therapy." In: Pioneers of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis, eds. D. B. Stern, C. Mann, S. Kantor, & G. Schlesinger. NJ: Analytic Press, pp. 169–174. * Bromberg, P.M. (1995). A Rose by Any Other Name: Commentary on Lerner's "Treatment Issues in a Case of Possible Multiple Personality Disorder". Psychoanal. Psychol., 12:143-149. * Bromberg, P.M. (1995). Psychoanalysis, Dissociation, and Personality Organization Reflections on Peter Goldberg's Essay. Psychoanal. Dial., 5:511-528. * Bromberg, P.M. (1995). Resistance, Object-usage, And Human Relatedness. Contemp. Psychoanal., 31:173. * Bromberg, P.M. (1996). Hysteria, Dissociation, and Cure: Emmy von N Revisited. Psychoanal. Dial., 6:55-71. * Bromberg, P.M. (1996). Standing in the Spaces: The Multiplicity Of Self And The Psychoanalytic Relationship. Contemp. Psychoanal., 32:509-535. * Bromberg, P.M. (1997). Commentary on Lawrence Friedman's "Ferrum, Ignis, and Medicina: Return to the Crucible." J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assoc., 45:36-40. * Bromberg, P.M. (1998). Staying the Same While Changing: Reflections on Clinical Judgment. Psychoanal. Dial., 8:225-236. * Bromberg, P.M. (1998). Standing in the spaces: Essays on clinical process, trauma, and dissociation. New Jersey: Analytic Press. * Bromberg, P.M. (1999). Playing with Boundaries. Contemp. Psychoanal., 35:54-66. * Bromberg, P.M. (2000). Bringing in the Dreamer: Some Reflections On Dreamwork, Surprise, And Analytic Process*. Contemp. Psychoanal., 36:685-705. * Bromberg, P.M. (2000). Potholes on the Royal Road: Or Is It An Abyss?*. Contemp. Psychoanal., 36:5-28. * Bromberg, P.M. (2000). Reply to Reviews of "Standing in the Spaces: Essays on Clinical Process, Trauma, and Dissociation" (Reviewers: Marcia Cavell, Randall Sorenson, and Henry Smith). Psychoanal. Dial., 10:551-568. * Bromberg, P.M. (2001). Hope When There Is No Hope: Discussion of Jill Scharff's Case Presentation. Psychoanal. Inq., 21:519-529. * Bromberg, P.M. (2001). The Gorilla Did It: Some Thoughts on Dissociation, the Real, and the Really Real. Psychoanal. Dial., 11:385-404. * Bromberg, P.M. (2001). Treating Patients with Symptoms—and Symptoms with Patience: Reflections on Shame, Dissociation, and Eating Disorders. Psychoanal. Dial., 11:891-912. * Bromberg, P.M. (2002). Speak to Me as to Thy Thinkings: Commentary on "Interpersonal Psychoanalysis' Radical Façade" by Irwin Hirsch. J. Amer. Acad. Psychoanal., 30:605-620. * Bromberg, P.M. (2003). On Being One's Dream: Some Reflections on Robert Bosnak's "Embodied Imagination". Contemp. Psychoanal., 39:697-710. * Bromberg, P.M. (2003). One Need Not Be a House to Be Haunted: On Enactment, Dissociation, and the Dread of "Not-Me"—A Case Study. Psychoanal. Dial., 13:689-709. * Bromberg, P.M. (2003). Something Wicked This Way Comes: Trauma, Dissociation, and Conflict: The Space Where Psychoanalysis, Cognitive Science, and Neuroscience Overlap. Psychoanal. Psychol., 20:558-574. * Bromberg, P.M. (2004). More Than Meets the Eye: A Professional Autobiography. Psychoanal. Inq., 24:558-575. * Chefetz, R.A., Bromberg, P.M. (2004). Talking with "Me" and "Not-Me": A Dialogue. Contemp. Psychoanal., 40:409-464. * Bromberg, P.M. (2006). Awakening the dreamer: Clinical journeys. New Jersey: Analytic Press. * Bromberg, P.M. (2006). "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye, I Die a Little …": Commentary on Holly Levenkron's "Love (and Hate) with the Proper Stranger". Psychoanal. Inq., 26:182-201. * Bromberg, P.M. (2006). It never entered my mind: Some reflections on desire, dissociation, and disclosure. In: J. Petrucelli, ed. Longing: Psychoanalytic Musings on Desire. London: Karnac Books, pp. 13–23. * Bromberg, P.M. (2007). Reply to Reviews of "Awakening the Dreamer: Clinical Journeys" by Philip M. Bromberg (Reviewers: Ethel Person, Susan Sands, and Allan Schore). Psychoanal. Dial., 17:769-787. * Bromberg, P.M. (2007). Response to Reviews of "Awakening the Dreamer: Clinical Journeys" (Reviewers: Jessica Benjamin, Max Cavitch, and Robert Langan). Contemp. Psychoanal., 43:696-708. * Bromberg, P.M. (2007). The Analytic Moment Doesn't Fit Analytic "Technique": Commentary on Tony Bass's "When the Frame Doesn't Fit the Picture". Psychoanal. Dial., 17:909-921. * Bromberg, P.M. (2008). "Grown-up" Words: An Interpersonal/Relational Perspective on Unconscious Fantasy. Psychoanal. Inq., 28:131-150. * Bromberg, P.M. (2008). Mentalize THIS!: Dissociation, enactment, and clinical process. In: E. Jurist, A. Slade, & S. Bergner, eds. Mind to Mind: Infant Research, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis. New York: Other Press, pp. 414–434. * Bromberg, P.M. (2008). Shrinking the Tsunami: Affect-regulation, Dissociation, and the Shadow of the Flood. Contemp. Psychoanal., 44:329-350. * 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). Discussion of Robert Grossmark's 'Case of Pamela.' Psychoanal. Dial., 19:31-38. * Bromberg, P.M. (2009). Truth, Human Relatedness, and the Analytic Process: An Interpersonal/Relational Perspective. Internat. J. Psychoanal., 90:347-361. * 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. (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. (2011). The shadow of the tsunami: And the growth of the relational mind. New York: RoutledgeBromberg, 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. (2013), Hidden in plain sight: Thoughts on imagination and the lived unconscious. Psychoanal. Dial., 23:1-14. * Greif, D. & Livingston, R. H. (2013), An interview with Philip M. Bromberg, Ph.D., Contemp. Psychoanal., 49:323-355. * Bromberg, P. M. (2014), Introduction to "WE" by Aurelia Levi. Contemp. Psychoanal., 50:298-300. * Bromberg, P. M. (2014), Sullivan as pragmatic visionary: Operationalist and operRelationalist. Contemp. Psychoanal., 50:509-530.

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