Doris Brothers

Doris Brothers is a co-founder of the Training and Research in Intersubjective Self Psychology Foundation. She was a co-editor of Psychoanalysis, Self and Context with Roger Frie from 2015 to 2019 and is consulting editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry. She has written five books including Psychoanalytic Explorations of Embodied Relational Knowing (2026, with Jon Sletvold), A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory, Practice and Supervision: TALKING BODIES (2023, with Jon Sletvold), Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis (2008), Falling Backwards: An Exploration of Trust and Self-Experience (1995), The Shattered Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of Trauma (1988), and many journal articles. She practices on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York, USA, and in Oslo, Norway.