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Professor Martin S. Bergmann, Ph.D., teaches a course on the history of psychoanalysis in the post-doctoral program on psychoanalysis and psychotherapy at New York University. He is an honorary member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, an honorary fellow of the Post-Graduate Center for Mental Health, and a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association. In 1997 he received the Sigourney Award for outstanding contributions to psychoanalysis, presented by the American Psychiatric Association and in 1998 he received the Distinguished Psychoanalytic Educator Award from the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education. In 2000 he delivered the Freud Anniversary Lecture to the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. He was chair of the study group “The Impact of the Holocaust on the Second Generation,” which culminated in a book Generations of the Holocaust (1982). His other books include The Evolution of Psychoanalytic Technique (1976), The Anatomy of Loving (1987), In the Shadow of Moloch: The Sacrifice of Children and Its Impact on Western Religions (1992), and (with his son Michael Bergmann) What Silent Love Has Writ: a Psychoanalytic Exploration of Shakespeare's Sonnets (2007). The Unconscious in Shakespeare's Works is forthcoming from Karnac. He chaired the conference on the Hartmann Era and edited the resulting book, The Hartmann Era in Psychoanalysis (2000) and also edited Understanding Dissidence and Controversy in the History of Psychoanalysis (2004), which received the Gradiva Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. He recently celebrated his 100th birthday and is still working as a clinician in private practice and as a psychoanalytic teacher.Professor Martin S. Bergmann, Ph.D., teaches a course on the history of psychoanalysis in the post-doctoral program on psychoanalysis and psychotherapy at New York University. He is an honorary member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, an honorary fellow of the Post-Graduate Center for Mental Health, and a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association. In 1997 he received the Sigourney Award for outstanding contributions to psychoanalysis, presented by the American Psychiatric Association and in 1998 he received the Distinguished Psychoanalytic Educator Award from the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education. In 2000 he delivered the Freud Anniversary Lecture to the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. He was chair of the study group “The Impact of the Holocaust on the Second Generation,” which culminated in a book