Brent Robbins: key obituary facts
Is Brent Robbins dead? Yes. Brent Robbins died on April 28, 2026, at age 55.
Cause of death: Brent Robbins's cause of death has not been publicly confirmed.
What was Brent Robbins known for?
Brent Robbins was an American psychologist and academic.
Brent Robbins, an American psychologist and academic, died on April 28, 2026, at the age of 55.
He was an associate professor of psychology at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and his research examined grief, humor, self-consciousness, spirituality and religion, death anxiety, and the medicalization of the body. Robbins founded and served as editor-in-chief of Janus Head: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies.
In 2011, he co-authored an open letter from the Society for Humanistic Psychology about the proposed DSM-5, a statement later endorsed by other American Psychological Association divisions and circulated as a petition signed by more than 15,000 people. He also wrote on the debate in a San Francisco Chronicle article and was identified in later work as a contributor to Eros & Psyche (Volume 2).