William V. Silverberg

William V. Silverberg (July 26, 1897 – October 10, 1967) was an American psychoanalyst and a founder of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry.

Biography Silverberg was a native of New York City. He received his B.A. from Columbia College and his medical degree from the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. who was disqualified by the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute for her rejection of several of Freud's basic tenets. He served as the Association's first president, and was on the faculty of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis and held courses at the New York Medical College. In 1944, he co-founded the first psychoanalytical training program attached to a medical school, a three-year graduate course at New York Medical College. From 1950 to 1966, Silverberg was a professor of psychiatry at New York Medical College as well as a consultant and trustee of High Point Hospital in Port Chester, New York.

Silverberg died on October 10, 1967, in White Plains, New York at 70 years old.