Louis Breger

Louis Breger (November 20, 1935 – June 26, 2020) was an American psychologist, psychotherapist and scholar.

ICP reflected Breger's commitment to an open, democratic form of education: it is a non-hierarchical training institute, not affiliated with the American Psychoanalytic Association.

He was the father of three grown children and two stepsons, married to Barbara Gale Breger; together, they have 13 grandchildren.

[2] Breger has been both a practicing psychotherapist and a faculty member at several universities where he carried out research on dreams, reformulations of psychoanalytic theory, psychotherapy process and outcome, personality development, and the application of psychoanalysis to literature.

His work on personality development – as found in his book From Instinct to Identity – is an integration of theory and research from child development, John Bowlby, Erik Erikson, Harry Stack Sullivan, Freud, Jean Piaget, primate studies, and research on hunter-gatherer societies.