• Sirvió en el ejército de los Estados Unidos durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial
• Recibió el doctorado en psicología de la New School for Social Research en Nueva York
• 1952, 1953, 1955: estudió con Carl Gustav Jung en Suiza como Bollingen Fellow
• 1959-1971: analista y director del Institute for Research in Depth Psychology en la Drew University
• 1975: primera edición de At a Journal Workshop, popularizando los principios básicos de su método del diario intensivo
• 1998: sucumbió a una parálisis supranuclear progresiva, falleciendo en enero de 1998.

Esta es una lista parcial y cronológica de los libros de Progoff:

• The Death and Rebirth of Psychology: An integrative evaluation of Freud, Adler, Jung and Rank and the impact of their culminating insights on modern man. New York, Julian Press. 1956. OCLC 1375551. 
• Depth psychology and modern man: A new view of the magnitude of human personality, its dimensions & resources. New York, Julian Press. 1959. OCLC 1025952. 
• The Symbolic & The Real; A New Psychological Approach to the Fuller Experience of Personal Existence. New York, McGraw-Hill. 1963. OCLC 1039530. 
• The Star/Cross: A Cycle of Process Meditation. New York, Dialogue House Library. 1971. ISBN 0-87941-001-9. OCLC 206826. 
• The White Robed Monk: A cycle of process meditation. New York, Dialogue House. 1972. ISBN 0-87941-002-7. OCLC 409796. 
• Jung, synchronicity, & human destiny: Noncausal dimensions of human experience. New York, Julian Press. 1973. ISBN 0-87097-056-9. OCLC 763819. 
• Death and Rebirth of Psychology. New York, Julian Press. 1974. 
• At a Journal Workshop: The Basic Text and Guide for Using the Intensive Journal Process. New York, Dialogue House. 1975. ISBN 0-87941-003-5. OCLC 1580592. 
• The Well and the Cathedral: With an Introduction on Its Use in the Practice of Meditation. New York, Dialogue House Library. 1977. OCLC 2318423. 
• The White Robed Monk: As an Entrance to Process Meditation. New York, Dialogue House Library. 1979. ISBN 0-87941-007-8. OCLC 4776805. 
• The Practice of Process Meditation: The Intensive Journal Way to Spiritual Experience.. New York, Dialogue House Library. 1980. ISBN 0-87941-008-6. OCLC 7064455. 
• The Dynamics of Hope: Perspectives of Process in Anxiety and Creativity, Imagery and Dreams.. New York, Dialogue House Library. 1985. ISBN 0-87941-013-2. OCLC 12419811. 
• Jung's Psychology and Its Social Meaning: An Integrative Statement of C. G. Jung's Psychological Theories and an Interpretation of Their Significance. New York, Dialogue House Library. 1985. ISBN 0-87941-014-0. OCLC 12752371. 
• Jung, Synchronicity, and Human Destiny: C.G. Jung's Theory of Meaningful Coincidence. New York, Julian Press. 1987. ISBN 0-517-56636-2. OCLC 15790031. 

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