Theodore Shapiro (psychiatrist)

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Theodore Shapiro
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Nationality American
Alma mater Wesleyan University
Weill Cornell Medical College
Occupation(s) Psychiatrist, psychoanalysis, professor

Theodore Shapiro is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in New York, where he is a professor emeritus in psychiatry and pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College and the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic. [1] He is a faculty member of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research [2] and a training and supervising psychoanalyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. [3]

Shapiro is the former director of the division of child psychiatry at Cornell [1] and the former editor of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association . [4] He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1953 and from the Weill Cornell Medical College in 1957. [5] [6]

In 1994, when Shapiro stepped down after ten years service as editor of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, he had published nearly 150 research articles and six books. Cooper [4] writes: "His publications include significant contributions to our understanding of empathy, autism, linguistic structure, symbol formation, and diagnosis, among other topics." Since that time he has continued publishing and is the author or editor of at least nine books.

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References

  1. 1 2 Department of Psychiatry Honors Frosch and Shapiro, Weill Cornell Medical College, 2002.
  2. Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research faculty roster 2008-2009 Archived 2009-04-23 at the Wayback Machine , retrieved 2009-07-05.
  3. New York Psychoanalytic Institute Membership Roster, retrieved 2009-07-05.
  4. 1 2 Cooper, Arnold M. (1994), "Theodore Shapiro, M.D.: an Appreciation", Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 42: 11–13, doi:10.1177/000306519404200102, S2CID   144674937 .
  5. Cooper, Arnold M. (2006), Contemporary psychoanalysis in America, American Psychiatric Pub., p. 589, ISBN   978-1-58562-232-0 .
  6. Physician profile from Weill Cornell Medical College, retrieved 2009-07-05.