Anni Bergman

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Paolo Migone

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Oct 5, 2021, 5:16:06 PM10/5/21

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As many of you probably already know, Anni Bergman, who was a member of our group, died on October 2 at her home, at the age of 102. I copy some information that are on the Internet and that I saw in other emails:

Anni Bergman was born in Vienna and immigrated to the United States in 1939. She graduated with a degree in music from the University of California and eventually settled in New York City with her husband, writer and publisher Peter Bergman, with whom she had two sons. While in California she met the psychoanalyst Christine Olden, who became a close friend and important influence. In 1959 Anni Bergman began to work with Margaret Mahler on the observational study of the separation-individuation process, and with Margaret Mahler and Fred Pine is co-author of the 1975 book "The Psychological Birth of the Human Infant".

Anni Bergman lived a full and active live. She was a musician, loved music, hiking, socializing. She began the "Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Program" (www.abpip.net) over twenty years ago and it is thriving today.

Her husband Peter Bergman, an Eastern Jew, was first a printer and then founded Bergman Publishers, New York, in the ground floor of their townhouse, at 224 West 20th Street, that later became The Other Press. In 1967 Peter Bergman published Tolstoy's "Writings on Civil Disobedience and Non-Violence", a pacifist manifesto.