M. Gerard Fromm, PhD, is a distinguished faculty member in the 

Erikson Institute for Education, Research, and Advocacy

 of the Austen Riggs Center. He is the former first Evelyn Stefansson Nef Director of the Erikson Institute and former director of the Center’s Therapeutic Community Program. 

Dr. Fromm has taught at and consulted to a number of psychoanalytic institutes across the country. His current work includes psychoanalytically informed organizational consultation. In addition to his own practice, he is a past president of both the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations and the Center for the Study of Groups and Social Systems in Boston. He directed the Center’s residential Group Relations Conferences for three years and has served on the staff of Group Relations Conferences in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Israel. Dr. Fromm was also a visiting Fellow in the Psychotherapy Department of University College, London, and a member of the Academy for Critical Incident Analysis in New York. 

Dr. Fromm continues to teach and present. His publications include a number of books: 

The Facilitating Environment: Clinical Applications of Winnicott’s Theory

 (with Bruce L. Smith, PhD) (International Universities Press, Inc., 1989); 

Lost in Transmission: Studies of Trauma across Generations

Taking the Transference, Reaching toward Dreams: Clinical Studies in the Intermediate Area

A Spirit That Impels: Play, Creativity and Psychoanalysis

raveling through Time: How Trauma Plays Itself out in Families, Organizations and Society

International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations

Center for the Study of Groups and Social Systems

Division of Psychoanalysis, American Psychological Association

Certified in psychoanalysis by the American Board of Professional Psychology

Assistant clinical professor at the Yale Child Study Center

President of the International Dialogue Initiative (IDI)

Partner in College Health and Counseling Service Consulting Services

Erikson Institute Distinguished Faculty

Erikson Institute Staff

Faculty

Distinguished Faculty in the Erikson Institute for Education, Research, and Advocacy

This book is about how traumatic psychological injury is passed down to the children and grandchildren of those who originally experienced it and about finding the shared humanity in families, in psychotherapy, in society, and in memories of the past that repairs the damage people do to one another.

Books

Throughout this book by M. Gerard Fromm, PhD, the links between the "little histories" of people and families and the "big history" of a society are illuminated and taken seriously.

Lost in Transmission

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