Sexuality in Old and New Psychoanalysis

Psychologist, psychotherapist, and scholar. He is Emeritus Professor of Psychoanalytic Studies at the California Institute of Technology. He studied for his PhD in Clinical Psychology at the Ohio State University in 1961. He then taught at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California Medical School in San Francisco, and the University of Oregon. In 1970 Louis Breger became Professor of Psychoanalytic Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences Division of the California Institute of Technology. He graduated from the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute in 1979, where he became a Training and Supervising Analyst and was the recipient of the Franz Alexander Essay Award and the Distinguished Teaching Award. In 1990, he resigned from that institution and, with a group of colleagues, created the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis (ICP) where he was the Founding President from 1990 to 1993. 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. Among his many publications, Psychotherapy: Lives Intersecting (2012), is a recent study of psychotherapy based on the many patients he has seen over the last fifty years. E-mail: