Bertram Cohler
American psychologist (1938-2012) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bertram Joseph Cohler (3 December 1938 – 9 May 2012) was an American psychologist, psychoanalyst, and educator primarily associated with the University of Chicago, the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, and Harvard University. He advocated a life course approach to understanding human experience and subjectivity, drawing on insights from psychoanalysis, developmental psychology, personology, psychological anthropology, narrative studies, and the interdisciplinary field of human development.[1] Cohler authored or co-authored over 200 articles and books. He contributed to numerous scholarly fields, including the study of adversity, resilience and coping; mental illness and treatment; family and social relations in normal development and mental illness; and the study of personal narrative in social and historical context. He made particular contributions to the study of sexual identity over the life course,[2] to the psychoanalytic understanding of homosexuality.,[3] and to the study of personal narratives of Holocaust survivors.[4] Other than his graduate study at Harvard, Cohler spent his career at the University of Chicago and affiliated institutions, where he was repeatedly recognized as an educator and a builder of bridges across disciplines. He was treated for esophageal cancer in 2011, but became ill from a related pneumonia and died on 9 May 2012 not far from his home in Hyde Park, Chicago.
Bertram Joseph Cohler | |
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Born | 3 December 1938 (1938-12-03) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
Died | 9 May 2012 (2012-05-10) (aged 73) Des Plaines, Illinois, U.S. |
Alma mater | University of Chicago |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Psychoanalyst, psychologist |
Institutions | University of Chicago, Harvard University, Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School |