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Alan Schwartz, MD, Psychiatry, New York, NY

AlanSchwartzMD

Psychiatry • New York, NY

Psychiatrist in Private Practice in NY, NY, Editor, Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health, WAWI

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  • Office

    450 W 24th St
    Ste 1A
    New York, NY 10011
    Phone+1 212-727-0923
    Fax+1 646-486-0965

Summary

  • Board Certified Psychiatrist, Psychoanalytically Trained at the William Alanson White Institute (Interpersonal Psychoanalysis), In practice in NYC for the past 20 years. General adult practice in psychiatry, including evaluation of complex psychopharmacologic and diagnostic issues, along with psychodynamic pscyhotherapy and psychoanalysis. Also former Co-Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health and a Committee chair at the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry for the past five years.

Education & Training

  • William Alanson White Institute
    William Alanson White InstituteCertificate in Psychoanalysis, 2002 - 2006
  • Weill Cornell Medicine
    Weill Cornell MedicinePost-Doctoral Fellowship, 1997 - 1997
  • Pennsylvania Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Health System
    Pennsylvania Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Health SystemResidency, Psychiatry, 1991 - 1995
  • Stony Brook University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine
    Stony Brook University Health Sciences Center School of MedicineClass of 1991

Certifications & Licensure

  • FL State Medical License
    FL State Medical License 2023 - 2026
  • NY State Medical License
    NY State Medical License 1997 - 2026
  • CT State Medical License
    CT State Medical License 2023 - 2025
  • NJ State Medical License
    NJ State Medical License 2023 - 2025
  • PA State Medical License
    PA State Medical License 1993 - 1998

Publications & Presentations

Journal Articles

  • The Growing Regulation of Conversion Therapy  
    LGBT Committee of GAP, Journal of Medical Regulation, 7/2016
  • Tis Better to Give Than to Receive: A Patient's Transformational Use of Gifts in an Analytic Therapy  
    Alan Schwartz, M.D., Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health
  • Exceptional Candor: A review of Notes from the Margins: The Gay Analyst's Subjectivity in the Treatment Setting, by Eric Sherman  
    Alan Schwartz, M.D., Contemporary Psyhcoanalysis
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Lectures

  • Workshop: Starting a Practice 
    Wm. Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, Psychology, New York, New York - 4/22/2013

Press Mentions

  • New Study Gives Hope to Sleep Apnea Sufferers Who Can't Tolerate CPAP
    New Study Gives Hope to Sleep Apnea Sufferers Who Can't Tolerate CPAPAugust 29th, 2017

Committees

  • Chair, LGBT Committee, Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry 2011 - Present

Professional Memberships

Dr. Alan Schwartz, Dr. Alan Schwartz, MD, Dr. A Schwartz