Sheldon Bach (May 18, 1925 – June 15, 2021) was an American

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and

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based in

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Life and career

Bach was born in May 1925. He served in the

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during World War II, then lived in

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where he studied at the Sorbonne. He joined the Research Center for Mental Health at

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in 1956, where he worked with

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and Leo Goldberger. He was Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and a Fellow of the International Psychoanalytical Association. Bach was born in

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in New York City. He died in New York City in June 2021 at the age of 96.

Awards

In 2007 he was the recipient of the Heinz Hartmann Award for "outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of psychoanalysis." His Hartmann Lecture was published and reviewed the following year.International Psychoanalysis website
/ref> In 2016 he was chosen by the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research to give the Norbert Freedman Memorial Lecture at the New School. In that same year he gave the 51st Freud Lecture at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education at NYU Medical School.

Books

*"Chimeras and Other Writings: Selected Papers of Sheldon Bach". IPBooks, 2016, *''The How-To Book for Students of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy''. Karnac, 2011, *''Getting from Here to There: Analytic Love, Analytic Process''. Routledge, 2006, *''Narcissistic States and the Therapeutic Process'' J. Aronson, 1985, *''The Language of Perversion and the Language of Love''. J. Aronson, 1994,

References

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