Disguised Autobiography as Clinical Case Study

Chaim E. Bromberg, Ph.D., is a psychologist/psychoanalyst in private practice in Harrison, New York. He is Director of the Licensure Qualifying Program at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, Voluntary Faculty at Weill Cornell Medical College, Visiting Faculty at the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, and a Visiting Instructor in the Psychiatry Residency and Psychology Internship programs at The Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Correspondence should be addressed to Chaim E. Bromberg, Ph.D., 550 Mamaroneck Avenue, Suite 305, Harrison, NY 10528, USA. E-mail:

Lewis Aron, Ph.D., is the Director of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He has served as President of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association; founding President of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP); founding President of the Division of Psychologist-Psychoanalysts of the New York State Psychological Association (NYSPA). He is the co-founder and co–chair of the Sándor Ferenczi Center at the New School for Social Research, an Honorary Member of the William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society, and Adjunct Professor, School of Psychology, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel. He is board certified in Psychoanalysis from the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) and is a Fellow of the American Board of Psychoanalysis, the American Psychological Association, & the American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis, & Distinguished Fellow, NYSPA. He is a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) and of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA). He was one of the founders and is an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and is a series co-editor of the Relational Perspectives Book Series, Routledge, and a Fellow of the College of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis (2016-2020).