Arnold Goldberg

Arnold Goldberg (May 21, 1929 – September 24, 2020[1]) was an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.

Arnold I. Goldberg
Born	May 21, 1929
Died	September 24, 2020 (aged 91)
Occupation	American psychoanalyst

Goldberg was the Cynthia Oudejans Harris Professor of Psychiatry at the Rush Medical School, Chicago, and a supervising and training analyst at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, where he did his psychoanalytic training.

The author of Moral Stealth: How "Correct Behavior" Insinuates Itself into Psychotherapeutic Practice (2007), Misunderstanding Freud (2004), Being of Two Minds: The Vertical Split in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (1999), The Problem of Perversion: The View from Self Psychology (1995), A Fresh Look at Psychoanalysis: The View From Self Psychology (1992), The Prisonhouse of Psychoanalysis (1990); (with John Gedo) Models of the Mind: A Psychoanalytic Theory (1976), he was also the editor of the annual series, Progress in Self-Psychology, now in its 24th year.

Many of Goldberg's publications were in the realm of self psychology, expanding and clarifying the ideas of Heinz Kohut.[2]

See also

• Heinz Kohut
• Self psychology

References

1. Arnold I. Goldberg, Legacy/Chicago Tribune, September 28, 2020
2. Arnold M. Cooper, Contemporary Psychoanalysis in America (2006) p. 206

External links

• University of Chicago Press: Moral Stealth – How "Correct Behavior" Insinuates Itself into Psychotherapeutic Practice
• University of Chicago Press: Models of the Mind – A psychoanalytic theory