Martin S. Bergmann, PhD, 1997 (1913-2014)
Dr. Bergmann’s original and prolific literary work spanned an unusually broad range of subjects — the psychology of love, child sacrifice, the Holocaust, the psychology of art, and the theory of symbols. His papers, seminars, and symposia also include original contributions on the psychology of art and the theory of symbols. He brought the same synthesizing intelligence to the Hartmann era, producing a body of scholarship on that pivotal period that grew into an ongoing conference dedicated to its history.
Beyond his written work, Bergmann made a lasting contribution to the development of psychoanalysis in the United States through his teaching, supervision, and scholarly engagement with psychoanalytic groups that had previously operated outside the orbit of both the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytical Association. Martin Bergmann was a clinical professor of psychology at New York University's post-doctoral program, where he taught the history of psychoanalysis, and a training analyst and supervisor at the New York Freudian Society.