The Woman I Love and the Woman I Cannot Live without

Teaches a course on the history of psychoanalysis in the Postdoctoral 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. His books include The Evolution of Psychoanalytic Technique (1976), Generations of the Holocaust (1982), The Anatomy of Loving (1987), In the Shadow of Moloch (1992), The Hartmann Era in Psychoanalysis (2000), and (with his son Michael Bergmann) What Silent Love Has Writ: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Shakespeare's Sonnets (2007). He is the editor of Understanding Dissidence and Controversy in the History of Psychoanalysis (2004), which received the Gradiva Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. 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 recently celebrated his 100th birthday and is still working as a clinician in private practice and as a psychoanalytic teacher.