Fellow-in-Residence, Stephen M. Sonnenberg
Biography
Stephen Sonnenberg was educated at Princeton University, The Albert Einstein College of Medicine, The University of Wisconsin, the National Institute of Mental Health, and The Baltimore-DC Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, Adjunct Professor at the School of Architecture and Fellow-in-Residence at the Humanities Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, and the Founding Director of the Austin Center for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.
Dr. Sonnenberg serves on numerous editorial boards and peer review panels of leading journals in the fields of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, has contributed scholarly articles to the leading journals in those fields, is the co-author of a textbook of psychodynamic psychotherapy, and the co-author of chapters in important textbooks of psychiatry.
His research interests focus on the points of intersection between psychoanalysis and other areas of scholarly inquiry. His subjects of study include war, violence, decision-making, architecture and design, psychic trauma and post traumatic psychological disorders, addiction and the treatment of addiction, and education and effective teaching methods.
Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae
Selected Publications
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Sonnenberg, SM: A Special Form of Survivor Syndrome. (1972). Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 41: 58-62
Sonnenberg, SM: A Transcultural Observation of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. (1982). Hospital & Community Psychiatry, 33: 58-59
Sonnenberg, SM, Orsak, CG: Psychoanalytic Aspects of the Aftermath of War, in Violence in America, An Encyclopedia, v.3. (1999). Gottesman, R., ed. New York: Scribner’s 399-403
Sonnenberg, SM: What Can Psychoanalysis Learn from an Enhanced Awareness of Architecture and Design? (2005). The Annual of Psychoanalysis, 33: 39-56
Sonnenberg, SM: On: The Relevance of Psychoanalysis to an Understanding of Terrorism. (2005). International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 86: 1479-1480
Sonnenberg, SM: Freud Document Attachments to On: The Relevance of Psychoanalysis to an Understanding of Terrorism. (2005). International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 86: 1479-1480
Sonnenberg, SM: Book Review: Clinical Manual for Management of PTSD, Benedek, DM, Wynn, GH, eds. (2011). Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 199: 427
