David Anderegg, Ph.D.

David Anderegg, Ph.D. is a clinical and developmental psychologist on the faculty of Bennington College and a child therapist in private practice in Lenox, Massachusetts.

David Anderegg, Ph.D. has been a child therapist for twenty five years. He did his pre-doctoral training at Harvard Medical School and served as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Austen Riggs Center. He has served on the faculties of Tufts University and the Smith College School of Social Work, and he is now on the faculty of Bennington College. He also serves on the Editorial Board of Psychoanalytic Psychology. His scholarly publications focus on psychoanalytic theory and practice especially in relation to play and creativity. He has been a mental health consultant for pre- through high schools, and has consulted to parent groups at all levels as well. He is the author of Worried All the Time: Rediscovering the Joy of Parenting in an Age of Anxiety (Free Press, 2003) and Nerds: Who They Are and Why We Need More of Them (Tarcher/Penguin, 2007).

His PT blog is Young Americans.