Michael D. Robbins

Michael D. Robbins is an American author, psychoanalyst, and former professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the University of California, San Francisco. 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.

Biography Robbins graduated from Amherst College Summa Cum Laude in 1905. He received his medical degree at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. Robbins completed his residency at Massachusetts Mental Health Center and an internship at the University of Rochester Medical School. Additionally, he graduated from and is a member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.

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

He is a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association, and the American Psychoanalytic Association. He was on the board of directors of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and the International Society for the Psychological Treatment of Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses (ISPS).

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."

Selected bibliography Books

Michael Robbins (May 5, 2018). Consciousness, Language, and Self: Psychoanalytic Explorations of the Dual Nature of Mind. Routledge. . Michael Robbins (April 2019). Psychoanalysis Meets Psychosis: Attachment, Separation, and the Undifferentiated Unintegrated Mind. Routledge. . 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

Articles

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.