[1] Atwood is professor emeritus of Clinical Psychology at Rutgers University where he received the Lindback Award.
[4] In the 1980s, Atwood and collaborator Robert Stolorow brought the concept of intersubjectivity into prominence in the field of psychoanalysis.
[5] Their book Faces in a Cloud (1979) was the seminal work from which emerged the influential psychological theory of intersubjectivity.
[7] Atwood is professor emeritus of Clinical Psychology at Rutgers University where he taught for 41 years and received the Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award.
His major interests have included personality theory, psychotherapy, psychology of knowledge, psychosis, philosophical systems, and complex relationships between madness and creative genius.