Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Louis A. Sass has strong interdisciplinary interests
involving the intersection of clinical psychology with philosophy, the
arts, and literary studies. His publications include critical analyses
of psychoanalytic theory; phenomenological studies of schizophrenia and
of modernist art and literature; and articles on notions of truth and
of the self in psychoanalysis, hermeneutic philosophy, and
postmodernism. He is the author of Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought and The Paradoxes of Delusion: Wittgenstein, Schreber, and the Schizophrenic Mind. He also coedited Hermeneutics and Psychological Theory. Dr.
Sass has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies in
Princeton, New Jersey, and was awarded a fellowship from the National
Endowment for the Humanities. Currently, he is a fellow of the New York
Institute for the Humanities and a research associate in the history of
psychiatry at Cornell Medical College. He also is a research associate
in the Center for Cognitive Science and serves on the faculty of the
program in comparative literature, both at Rutgers. In 1998-99 he was
president of the Division of Psychology and the Arts of the American
Psychological Association.
