Louis Breger

Louis Breger is an American psychologist, psychotherapist and scholar. He is Emeritus Professor of Psychoanalytic Studies at the California Institute of Technology. Breger was born and grew up in Los Angeles, California. He attended Cornell University and U.C.L.A., then obtained his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Ohio State University in 1961. He then taught at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California Medical School in San Francisco, and the University of Oregon. He...See more

Louis Breger is an American psychologist, psychotherapist and scholar. He is Emeritus Professor of Psychoanalytic Studies at the California Institute of Technology. Breger was born and grew up in Los Angeles, California. He attended Cornell University and U.C.L.A., then obtained his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Ohio State University in 1961. He then taught at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California Medical School in San Francisco, and the University of Oregon. He graduated from the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute in 1979, where he became a Training and Supervising Analyst and received both the Franz Alexander Essay Award and the Distinguished Teaching Award. In 1990, he and a group of colleagues created the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis (ICP) where he was the Founding President from 1990 to 1993. ICP reflected Breger's commitment to an open, democratic form of education as a non-hierarchical training institute. See less