Fear of Breakthrough

Distinguished faculty, Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center and assistant clinical professor, Yale Child Study Center. He was the first Evelyn Stefansson Nef Director of the Erikson Institute and directed the therapeutic community program at Riggs for many years. Dr. Fromm has taught at, and consulted to, a number of psychoanalytic institutes across the country. He is president of the International Dialogue Initiative, an interdisciplinary group that studies the psychodynamics of societal conflict, and past president of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations. Dr. Fromm has presented and published widely, including Lost in Transmission: Studies of Trauma across Generations; A Spirit That Impels: Play, Creativity and Psychoanalysis; and a book of clinical papers, Taking the Transference, Reaching toward Dreams: Clinical Studies in the Intermediate Area.