Stephen Sonnenberg

Stephen Sonnenberg is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and an adjunct professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also a fellow-in-residence at the Humanities Institute and an affiliate faculty member at the College of Liberal Arts. He also holds teaching positions at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. Sonnenberg is also the Founding Director of the Austin Center for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.

He received his Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University in 1961 and his Doctor of Medicine from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1965. Dr. Sonnenberg serves on numerous editorial boards and peer review panels of leading journals in the fields of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, has contributed scholarly articles to the leading journals in those fields, is the co-author of a textbook of psychodynamic psychotherapy, and the co-author of chapters in important textbooks of psychiatry. His research interests focus on the points of intersection between psychoanalysis and other areas of scholarly inquiry. His areas of study include war, violence, decision-making, architecture and design, psychic trauma and post traumatic psychological disorders, addiction and the treatment of addiction, and education and effective teaching methods.

Dr. Sonnenberg lives in Austin, TX.

References

• Fellow-in-Residence, Stephen M. Sonnenberg
• School of Architecture Faculty Profile
• Daily Texan - Stephen Sonnenberg
• Thomas Palaima and Stephen Sonnenberg: Our wounds, our duty