Philip M. Bromberg (1931 – 18 May 2020)[1] was an American psychologist and psychoanalyst who was actively involved in the training of mental health professionals throughout the United States.
[2] He was a supervising psychoanalyst, supervisor of psychotherapy, and member of the teaching faculty at William Alanson White Institute; a clinical assistant professor of psychology at Cornell University Medical College; 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.
[4] Bromberg was a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute and Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.
For over 40 years he wrote extensively concerning human mental development and the patient/therapist relationship, and presented an interpersonal/relational point of view that emphasizes self-organization, states of consciousness, dissociation, and multiple self-states.
Within the context of self-organization of systems theory, Bromberg highlighted the role of developmental trauma in shame-based dissociative processes and its impact on relatedness.