Thomas Ogden (born December 4, 1946) is an American psychoanalyst and writer, of both psychoanalytic and fiction books, who lives and works in San Francisco, California.
"[3] Central influences include the British school (Bion, Klein, Winnicott) and literary figures, such as Borges, Kafka, Robert Frost, and Coetzee.
"[4] Gregorio Kohon, of the British Psychoanalytical Society, remarks that "Ogden belongs to that rare group of psychoanalysts who are also good writers.
...he re-creates the vitality of his own dream-life through creative readings of poetry and the unspoken, of fiction and mourning, of analytic sensibility and the aliveness of language.
"[5] Ogden's work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, Turkish and Hebrew.