Thomas Ogden is a psychoanalyst and writer, of both psychoanalytic and fiction books, who lives and works in San Francisco, California.
Ogden received a BA from Amherst College, MA, and an MD from Yale, where he also completed a psychiatric residency.
He served for a year as an Associate Psychiatrist at the Tavistock Clinic in London, and did his psychoanalytic training at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, where he has remained on the faculty.
For more than 25 years he has served as Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of the Psychoses.
He has also been a member of the North American Editorial Board for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, and Psychoanalytic Dialogues.Ogden is a supervising and personal analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California.