PROFILE
I grew up in a middle class family in New York City where I attended public schools, played softball, frequented the local library, and learned how to navigate my corner of the complex subway system.
I received my B.A. from Harvard College, where I learned that the world is much bigger and more complex than even New York City, with a greater variety of people and of challenges than I could have imagined.
I received my M.D. from the Yale University School of Medicine, where I learned there are 206 bones in the human body and that it is very helpful to have an office down the hall from anatomy class where a folksy chaplain serves coffee and cookies.
I did my adult and child psychiatry residency training at McLean Hospital in Boston, a large tertiary care referral center affiliated with Harvard Medical School, providing intensive treatment for many patients whose problems recurred after shorter, less intensive treatment. I was board certified in adult psychiatry in 1981 and child psychiatry in 1983.
Since completing residency, I have maintained a private practice for over thirty years. I have worked part-time at several public and private mental health clinics serving a broad range of populations of children, adolescents and adults.
I moved from Boston to Milwaukee in 1992 to become director of child and adolescent outpatient services at St. Mary’s Hill Hospital and start a private practice. I arrived in Wisconsin just in time to become a rabid fan of the surging Packer team that won the Super Bowl in 1996. Packer fortunes have been up and down since then, but my attachment to Wisconsin has deepened steadily over the years.
I have been very active in the psychoanalytic community here, holding many posts over the years at the Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Institute, including Director. I am a Training and Supervising Analyst at both the Wisconsin and Chicago institutes.
I am an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Medical college of Wisconsin, where I teach the concepts and practice of adult and child psychotherapy.
I have written and lectured about such topics as how psychotherapy works, relationship dilemmas, the benefits and pitfalls of intense emotion, the challenges of parenting, children of divorce, endings in life and therapy, learning from children’s books, and the practical application of psychoanalytic ideas.
I received my B.A. from Harvard College, where I learned that the world is much bigger and more complex than even New York City, with a greater variety of people and of challenges than I could have imagined.
I received my M.D. from the Yale University School of Medicine, where I learned there are 206 bones in the human body and that it is very helpful to have an office down the hall from anatomy class where a folksy chaplain serves coffee and cookies.
I did my adult and child psychiatry residency training at McLean Hospital in Boston, a large tertiary care referral center affiliated with Harvard Medical School, providing intensive treatment for many patients whose problems recurred after shorter, less intensive treatment. I was board certified in adult psychiatry in 1981 and child psychiatry in 1983.
Since completing residency, I have maintained a private practice for over thirty years. I have worked part-time at several public and private mental health clinics serving a broad range of populations of children, adolescents and adults.
I moved from Boston to Milwaukee in 1992 to become director of child and adolescent outpatient services at St. Mary’s Hill Hospital and start a private practice. I arrived in Wisconsin just in time to become a rabid fan of the surging Packer team that won the Super Bowl in 1996. Packer fortunes have been up and down since then, but my attachment to Wisconsin has deepened steadily over the years.
I have been very active in the psychoanalytic community here, holding many posts over the years at the Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Institute, including Director. I am a Training and Supervising Analyst at both the Wisconsin and Chicago institutes.
I am an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Medical college of Wisconsin, where I teach the concepts and practice of adult and child psychotherapy.
I have written and lectured about such topics as how psychotherapy works, relationship dilemmas, the benefits and pitfalls of intense emotion, the challenges of parenting, children of divorce, endings in life and therapy, learning from children’s books, and the practical application of psychoanalytic ideas.