Henry L. McCurtis MD (He/Him)

Summary

• I am a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, with a specialty in addiction psychiatry. I have maintained an integrative psychiatry practice based on diagnostic assessment and treatment guided by biological, psychological, social, and behavioral paradigms since 1978. A developmental orientation toward understanding human behavior guides my clinical perspective. This is influenced by a special interest in attachment styles and their impact on interpersonal conflict in families and couples.
  
  I have a keen interest in the phase of life problems resulting in major transitions in development. Transitions such as the passage from adolescents to young adulthood, marriage, divorce, mid life adjustments, retirement, and grief and bereavement are a special interest of mine.
  
  A psychoanalytic perspective informs my approach to elucidating the experiences of the past that influence the here and now motivating one to think, feel, and act in predictable patterns that influence agency, identity, empathy, and intimacy.
  
  I have a multicultural sensitivity developed in the crucible of the rural South during the sunset of Jim Crow and the dawn of the civil rights movement. This sensitivity was crystalized in the academic environment of a historically black college during this intense period of political activism and social change. The perspective that motivates me to discern the complex factors forging the personal and group identity aspects of personality that determine how we think, act, and feel was refined by years of clinical practice, teaching, and supervising psychiatrists and other mental health professionals in the greater New York area.