Michael D. Robbins is an American author, psychoanalyst, and former professor of Psychiatry at
Harvard Medical School and the University of California, San Francisco.[1] His
psychoanalytic research has focused on how the mind works in western and non-western cultures, particularly with regard to
schizophrenia and other psychoses, language, creativity, conscious and unconscious mental processes.[2]
Robbins joined
Harvard Medical School where he became an assistant professor and later a clinical professor of Psychiatry. He was attending psychiatrist at
McLean Hospital in
Belmont, Massachusetts where he was in charge of wards and then became director of the admissions and brief treatment service. He later became clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco[6][1] and was on the faculty of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California.[7][8]
In 1983, Robbins received the Felix and Helene Deutsch Prize presented by the
Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute for his paper, "Toward a New Mind Model for the Primitive Personalities."[6]
Selected bibliography
Books
Michael D. Robbins (July 30, 1993). Experiences of Schizophrenia: An Integration of the Personal, Scientific, and Therapeutic. Guilford Press.
ISBN9780898629972.
Michael Robbins (May 19, 2011). The Primordial Mind in Health and Illness: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Routledge.
ISBN9780415454612.
Michael Robbins (May 5, 2018). Consciousness, Language, and Self: Psychoanalytic Explorations of the Dual Nature of Mind. Routledge.
ISBN9781138487635.
Michael Robbins (April 2019). Psychoanalysis Meets Psychosis: Attachment, Separation,,and the Undifferentiated Unintegrated Mind. Routledge.
ISBN978-0-367-19115-3.
Michael Robbins ( September 8, 2023). What Makes Humans Unique: Evolution and the Two Structures of Mind. Routledge. ISBN 1032564911
Michael Robbins (2023). The Human Difference: Evolution, Civilization – and Destruction. Routledge. ISBN 1032569441
Michael Robbins (June 12, 2023). Traveling On: Fifty Years of Poetry and Sculpture. IP books. ISBN 1956864466
Book chapters
M. Robbins (1993). "Disturbances of affect representation in primitive personalities". J. Gedo & A. Wilson, eds., Hierarchical Conceptions in Psychoanalysis. Guilford Press. pp. 235–262.
M. Robbins (1993). "The psychopathological spectrum and the hierarchical model". J. Gedo & A. Wilson, eds., Hierarchical Concepts in Psychoanalysis. Guilford Press. pp. 284–308.
M. Robbins (1994). "A Fairbairnian object relations perspective on self psychology". J. Grotstein & D. Rinsley,(Eds), Fairbairn and the Origin of Object Relations. Guilford Press. pp. 302–317.
M. Robbins (1996). "Nature, nurture and core gender identity". Richards, A. & Tyson, P., (Eds.), The Psychology of Women: Psychoanalytic Perspectives. International Universities Press. pp. 93–117.
M. Robbins (2003). "Le langage dans la schizophrenie et le monde du delire". L' Annee Psychoanalytique Internationale 2003. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis. pp. 63–90.
M. Robbins (2013). "Affect and Psychosis". Gumley, A., Gillham, A., Taylor, K., & Schwannauer, M. (Eds), Psychosis and Emotion: The role of emotions in understanding psychosis, therapy and recovery. Routledge.
M. Robbins (2015). "The "royal road" – to what?". The Annual of Psychoanalysis. Vol. 38. pp. 196–214.
M. Robbins (2016). "The successful psychoanalytic therapy of a chronic paranoid schizophrenic woman". Lombardi, R., Rinaldi, L., & Thanopulos, S. (Eds), Psicoanalisi Della Psicosi: Prospettive Attuali. Raffello Cortina.
Articles
M. Robbins (1980). "Current controversy in object relations theory as outgrowth of a schism between Klein and Fairbairn". International Journal of Psycho-Analysis. 61: 541–557.
M. Robbins (1983). "Toward a new mind model for the primitive personalities". International Journal of Psycho-Analysis. 64: 127–148.
PMID6874231.
Michael Robbins (April 1, 1992). "Psychoanalytic and Biological Approaches to Mental Illness: Schizophrenia". Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. 40 (2): 425–454.
doi:
10.1177/000306519204000206.
PMID1593079.
S2CID23338245.
Michael Robbins (June 1, 1996). "The Mental Organization of Primitive Personalities and its Treatment Implications". Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. 44 (3): 755–784.
doi:
10.1177/000306519604400305.
PMID8892187.
S2CID37303434.
Michael Robbins (June 1, 2004). "Another Look At Dreaming: Disentangling Freud's Primary and Secondary Process Theories". Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. 52 (2): 355–384.
doi:
10.1177/00030651040520021201.
PMID15222432.
S2CID17735085.
M Robbins (December 12, 2012). "The Successful Psychoanalytic Therapy of a Schizophrenic Woman". Psychodynamic Psychiatry. 40 (4): 575–608.
doi:
10.1521/pdps.2012.40.4.575.
PMID23216397.
M Robbins (2015). "The “royal road” – to what?" The Annual of Psychoanalysis. 38: 196-214.
M.Robbins (2018). "The Primary Process: Freud's Profound but Neglected Contribution to the Psychology of Consciousness". Psychoanalytic Inquiry. 38: 186-197.
References
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abAndrew I. Gumley, Alf Gillham, Kathy Taylor, Matthias Schwannauer (July 18, 2013). Psychosis and Emotion: The role of emotions in understanding psychosis, therapy and recovery. Routledge.{{
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^Burness Moore, Bernard Fine, ed. (January 26, 1990). Psychoanalytic Terms and Concepts. Yale University Press.
ISBN9780300047011.