Dr Brent Potter, PhD, PhD, PsyD

Dr. Brent Potter, PhD, PhD, PsyD is a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist with more than three decades of experience across clinical practice and behavioral health leadership. Alongside formal training, his work is informed by long engagement with individuals and communities navigating suffering, meaning, and psychological transformation.

Brent began writing Elements of Self-Destruction while working in community mental health and emergency shelter settings in the Pacific Northwest. First published in 2013, the book became widely read within existential and psychoanalytic circles. He later published Elements of Reparation: Truth, Faith, & Transformation in the Works of Heidegger, Bion, & Beyond, and co-authored Borderline Personality Disorder: New Perspectives on an Overused & Stigmatizing Diagnosis with Jacqueline Simon-Gunn. His forthcoming books, Elements of Faith and The Myth of Sobriety, are currently in development.

Brent has served on dissertation committees and editorial boards and has published extensively in professional articles, chapters, and reviews. He earned degrees in psychology and psychoanalysis, including a BA in Psychology (Western Washington University), an MA in Clinical Psychology (Duquesne University), a PhD in Clinical Psychology (Pacifica Graduate Institute), a PhD in Psychoanalysis (Bircham University), and a PsyD in Psychoanalysis (Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis). He also holds psychoanalytic certification through the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis.

Brent is available for clinical consultation, supervision, speaking engagements, and interviews. He lives in South Carolina with his wife and children.