Experience

After graduating from Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas, I obtained psychiatric training at Timberlawn Psychiatric Hospital then psychoanalytic training at the Dallas Psychoanalytic Institute. I have practiced outpatient psychiatry for over 25 years in addition to teaching and supervising psychiatric residents as Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Southwestern Medical School. Currently, I am affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry at Rush Medical School and enjoy my involvement in local psychiatric and psychoanalytic organizations.

Concentrations

Potential patients present with problems of various types:

• anxiety

• depression

• psychosis

• mania

• obsessions

• eating disorders

• dysfunctional relationships

I am interested in addressing the presenting issues, working to find ways to relieve the patients and/ or their families. In addition, many instances exist in which I am able to find a point of view from which symptoms can be seen as a manifestation of a larger problem in the person's or system's developmental process. When I am able to see this I then try to help the patient or family to see it as well. We can then look for ways to move the invidividual, couple or family onto a more optimal developmental trajectory.

Approach

I offer outpatient evaluations and treatments for a full range of psychiatric syndromes. My psychoanalytic training and experience provides a broad perspective on human development and the problems that can emerge from that process. The treatment modalities I offer include:

• psychoanalytic psychotherapy

• psychoanalysis

• couples therapy

• family therapy

• medication consultation

• management & psychotherapy supervision