Bryan E. Robinson is an American writer, psychotherapist, and professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte currently living in Asheville, NC.

[2] Robinson is best known for his book, Chained to the Desk: A Guidebook for Workaholics, Their Partners and Children and the Clinicians Who Treat Them (2014, its third edition).

[6] He has lectured on his pioneering research on workaholism and work/life balance across the United States and throughout the world: Sweden, Russia, Norway, Hong Kong, England, Canada, and Australia, and his books have been translated into thirteen languages: Arabic, Korean, Turkish, Hebrew, German, French, Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Japanese, and Russian.

[7] Robinson's early work included his publications on men in day care, teenage dads, and gay fathers.

When he realized there was no information on workaholism especially as it related to the family, Robinson and his research team launched a series of studies, the first of their kind, to examine the influence of work addiction on family functioning and to develop an empirical instrument to measure work addiction[8] In 1989, during his tenure as Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Robinson won the First Citizens Scholars Medal given annually to faculty for outstanding scholarship and a distinguished record in research.