Jay Greenberg (psychoanalyst)
| Jay Greenberg | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Jay R. Greenberg 3 October 1942 Brooklyn, New York |
| Residence | New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | PhD Psychology, New York University; BA, University of Chicago |
| Occupation | psychoanalyst, clinical psychologist and writer |
| Years active | 1978–present |
| Known for | leading psychoanalyst at William Alanson White Institute, authority on relational psychoanalysis |
Jay R. Greenberg (born October 3, 1942) is a psychoanalyst, clinical psychologist and writer. He holds a PhD in Psychology from New York University. He is a Faculty Member of the William Alanson White Institute, where he is also a training analyst and supervisor.
Greenberg was one of the originators of relational psychoanalysis, though he is now less closely identified with it. Since 2011 he is the Editor of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. He is the 2015 recipient of the Mary S. Sigourney Award for Outstanding Achievement in Psychoanalysis.
Greenberg was born in Brooklyn, New York on October 3, 1942. He grew up in Brooklyn and Queens until he went to college in 1959. He received a BA degree from the University of Chicago in 1963.
After two years of study in philosophy at the University of Chicago, he enrolled in the Clinical Psychology program at New York University, where in 1974 he received his Ph.D., writing his dissertation on “An Analysis of Diagnostic Decision Making as a Function of the Nature of Clinical Setting”.
Greenberg then entered analytic training at the William Alanson White Institute, receiving his Certificate in 1978.
Since 1978 Greenberg has been affiliated with the William Alanson White Institute, currently as a faculty member, supervisor, and training analyst. Through this Institute he has been influenced by its founders, Harry Stack Sullivan, Erich Fromm, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann and Clara Thompson.
Since 2011 he is the Editor of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. From 1994 to 2001 he served as Editor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and from 2007 to 2010 as Editor for North America of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis.
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