Philosophy of Psychotherapy:

"My philosophy of therapy is to first evaluate an individual's needs with as much empathy as I can and to consider the suffering, motivation and realities in each person's life.  I then may offer psychoanalytic therapy, support, counseling and possibly medication, as suitable.  As a psychoanalyst, a physician, and a member of a caring profession, I think the therapeutic relationship is crucial for resolving conflicts and traumas that cause symptoms such as anxiety and depression and limit a person's ability to sustain and derive gratification from relationships, work and creative endeavors."

2574 Leslie Drive
Atlanta, GA 30345

770-934-8312

Professional Expertise/Areas Of Interest:
I am a certified psychoanalyst (by the American Psychoanalytic Association) and specialize in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, as well as psychoanalysis.  I enjoy working with students and young adults with separation/adjustment issues and with people going through midlife crises.   Other areas of particular interest  are the different forms of depression, including due to loss, trauma, and abuse, endogenous and post partum.  In these cases, I prescribe medications where indicated in conjunction with supportive psychotherapy.  I am comfortable working with lesbian and gay patients.  I see couples in marital counseling.

Education: MD, 1967; Psychiatry residency 1971; Graduate of N.Y.U. Psychoanalytic Institute 1985

Background Experience: Over 35 years of private practice experience and also in teaching and supervising other practitioners.

Professional Affiliations/Activities:

• American Psychiatric Association 
• American Psychoanalytic Association
  
• Training/Supervising Psychoanalyst and Clinical Associate Professor, Emory University Department of Psychiatry Psychoanalytic Institute
• Atlanta Psychoanalytic Society
• Recent Publication: "To Coerce and Be Coerced", in Journal of American Psychoanalytic Association, 2007 

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