MarthaStarkMD

Psychiatry • Newton, MA

Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Mass Mental Health Center

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Office
3 Ripley St
Newton, MA 02459
Phone+1 617-244-7188

Education & Training

Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical SchoolResidency, Psychiatry, 1977 - 1979
Cambridge Health AllianceResidency, Psychiatry, 1974 - 1977
Harvard Medical SchoolClass of 1974
Harvard UniversityA.B., Applied Mathematics, 1969

Certifications & Licensure

CA State Medical License 1980 - Present
MA State Medical License 1975 - 2025

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Annual Dr. Stephen D. Hayes Community Service & Teaching Award Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, 2012
Meritorious Service Award American Academy of Environmental Medicine, 2010
Listed in 2008-2009 Edition of the Cambridge Who’s Who Among Executives, Professionals, and Entrepreneurs and in Subsequent Editions 2008
Listed in 2007-2008 Edition of the Cambridge Who’s Who Among Executives and Professionals in Psychiatric Medicine and in Subsequent Editions 2008
"Top 5 Books That Made You a Better Psychotherapist", Working with Resistance The Student Doctor Network and PsychCentral, 2006
Listed in 9th Edition of the Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering and in Subsequent Editions Marquis Who’s Who, 2006
Listed in 6th Edition of the Marquis Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare and in Subsequent Editions Marquis Who’s Who, 2006
Listed in 25th Silver Anniversary Edition of the Marquis Who’s Who of American Women and in Subsequent Editions Marquis Who’s Who, 2006
Listed in 24th Edition of the Marquis Who’s Who in the World and in Subsequent Editions Marquis Who’s Who, 2006
Listed in The International Directory of Experts and Expertise and in Subsequent Editions American Biographical Institute, Inc., 2006
Listed in the Contemporary Who’s Who of Professionals and in Subsequent Editions 2005
25-Year Service Recognition Certificate Harvard Medical School, 2004
Listed in the American Woman Who’s Who Registry and in Subsequent Editions American Woman Who’s Who Registry, 2004
Listed in the Great Women of the 21st Century and in Subsequent Editions American Biographical Institute, Inc., 2004
Listed in the National Register’s Who’s Who in Executives and Professionals and in Subsequent Editions National Register’s Who’s Who, 2003
Modes of Therapeutic Action as one of his “Top Three Picks for Our Entire Twenty-Five Years of Publishing” Jason Aronson, Inc., 2002
Book of the Year (Modes of Therapeutic Action: Enhancement of Knowledge, Provision of Experience, and Engagement in Relationship) Jason Aronson, Inc., 2000
Clinician of the Year Jason Aronson, Inc., 2000
Listed in International Who’s Who of Professional and Business Women and in Subsequent Editions Marquis Who’s Who, 2000
Listed in 1999-2000 (Millennium) Edition of Strathmore’s Who’s Who and in Subsequent Editions Strathmore’s Who’s Who, 2000
Listed in Dr. Whitaker’s Directory of Nutrition-Oriented Physicians (Practitioners and Resources in the United States and Canada) 1997
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

10 citations
Hormesis, adaptation, and the sandpile model.
Martha Stark
Critical Reviews in Toxicology. 2008-10-10

Journal Articles

Review of The Science of The Art of Psychotherapy (Allan N Schore)
Stark M, Psychoanalytic Psychology (a Publication of the American Psychological Association), 1/1/2015
Review of The Science of The Art of Psychotherapy (Allan N Schore)
Stark M, The Neuropsychotherapist, 1/1/2015
Structured play therapy groups for preschoolers: Facilitating the emergence of social competence
Stone S, Stark M, International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 1/1/2013
The sandpile model: Optimal stress and hormesis
Stark M, Dose-Response (formerly Nonlinearity in Biology, Toxicology, and Medicine), 1/1/2012
Clinical Challenge – “Something is better than nothing”: Psychotherapy with an older woman
Adler K, Stark M, Choi-Kain L, Marouf F, Gans S, Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 1/1/2012
Hormesis, adaptation, and the sandpile model
Stark M, Critical Reviews in Toxicology, 1/1/2008
Debating the one-third rule – My response to Dr Boris Vatel
Stark M, Psychiatric Times, 1/1/2007
Adverse health effects of indoor molds
Curtis L, Lieberman A, Stark M, Rea W, Vetter M, Nexus Magazine, 1/1/2006
Neurotransmitters, pharmacologic synergy, and clinical strategies
Stark M, Psychiatric Times Special Edition, 1/1/2006
Adverse health effects of indoor molds
Curtis L, Lieberman A, Stark M, Rea W, Vetter M, Journal of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine, 1/1/2004
Adverse health effects of indoor molds
Curtis L, Lieberman A, Stark M, Rea W, Vetter M, Journal of Australasian College of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine, 1/1/2004
On finding and being found
Stark M, Psychotherapy Forum, 1/1/1996
Discussion of Dr Daniel Kriegman’s “Defining self psychology: Challenges for a new psychoanalytic paradigm”
Stark M, The New England Journal of Self Psychology, 1/1/1993
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Books/Book Chapters

Transforming Wounds into Wisdom: Change Your Attitudes and Save Your Life.
Chapter: Foreword
Stark MEditors: Davidson J.New Perspectives Press, San Dimas, CA2015
Integrative Psychiatry for Depression: Redefining Models for Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention of Mood Disorders
Chapter: Integrative psychotherapy: Healing the MindBodyMatrix
Page 403 - 419Stark MEditors: Greenblatt J, Brogan K.CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group), Boca Raton, FL2015
Hormesis in Health and Disease
Chapter: Optimal stress, psychological resilience, and the sandpile model
Page 201 - 224Stark MEditors: Rattan S, Le Bourg E.CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group), Boca Raton, FL2014
Modes of Therapeutic Action: Enhancement of Knowledge, Provision of Experience, and Engagement in Relationship (kindle edition)
Stark MJason Aronson, Northvale, NJ2007
Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call
Rapp DEditors: Stark M.Personal Transformation Press, Penryn, CA2003
The Freud Encyclopedia: Theory, Therapy, and Culture
Chapter: Resistance
Page 495 - 496Stark MEditors: Erwin E.Routledge, New York, NY2002
Optimum Environments for Optimum Health and Creativity: Designing and Building a Healthy Home or Office
Rea WJEditors: Stark M.Crown Press, Inc., Dallas, TX2002
Working with Resistance (paperback)
Stark MJason Aronson, Northvale, NJ2002
Controversies on Countertransference
Chapter: Discussion: Engaging patients authentically
Page 141 - 154Stark MEditors: Strean H.Jason Aronson, Northvale, NJ2001
My House Is Killing Me!
May JEditors: Stark M.The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD2001
Modes of Therapeutic Action: Enhancement of Knowledge, Provision of Experience, and Engagement in Relationship (paperback)
Stark MJason Aronson, Northvale, NJ2001
Use of the Telephone in Psychotherapy
Chapter: Long-term therapy by telephone: The patient who cannot let go
Page 213 - 227Plummer J, Stark MEditors: Aronson J.Jason Aronson, Northvale, NJ2000
-Minute Consultations with America’s Greatest Psychotherapists
Chapter: Overcoming relentless hope
Page 14 - 17Stark MEditors: Aronson J.Jason Aronson, Northvale, NJ2000
Modes of Therapeutic Action: Enhancement of Knowledge, Provision of Experience, and Engagement in Relationship (hardcover)
Stark MJason Aronson, Northvale, NJ1999
Why I Became a Psychotherapist
Chapter: If you love your job, you’ll never work another day in your life
Page 263 - 273Stark MEditors: Reppen J.Jason Aronson, Northvale, NJ1998
Understanding Therapeutic Action: Psychodynamic Concepts of Cure
Chapter: From structural conflict to relational conflict: A contemporary model of therapeutic action
Page 237 - 252Stark MEditors: Lifson L.The Analytic Press, New York, NY1996
Perilous Calling: The Hazards of Psychotherapy Practice
Chapter: The therapist as recipient of the patient’s relentless entitlement
Page 188 - 199Stark MEditors: Sussman M.John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY1995
Working with Resistance
Stark MJason Aronson, Northvale, NJ1994
A Primer on Working with Resistance
Stark MJason Aronson, Northvale, NJ1994
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Lectures

Relentless Hope: The Refusal to Grieve
Multiple locations, , 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, - 1/1/2016
Core Course entitled The Transformative Power of Optimal Stress: From Cursing the Darkness to Lighting a Candle
Newton, MA - 1/1/2016
Case Discussion of Case Presentation entitled A Fragmented Patient: Use of the Therapist as an Autistic Object
Boston, MA - 1/1/2016
The Transformative Power of Optimal Stress
Environmental Health Center, Dallas, TX - 1/1/2016
Holistic Psychotherapy: Healing the MindBodyMatrix
Newport Psychoanalytic Institute – The Training Division of Newport Center for Psychoanalytic Studie - 1/1/2016
Neuroinflammation and Depression: When the Terrain of the Pain Is the Brain
Scottsdale, AZ, 2016; The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, Las Vegas, NV, 2016 - 1/1/2016
Introduction and Overview: Dr. Richard Schwartz’s Internal Family Systems Model
Boston, MA - 1/1/2015
Case Discussion of Case Presentation entitled A Second Chance: Evolutions in Attachment
Boston, MA - 1/1/2015
Integrative Psychotherapy: Healing the MindBodyMatrix
Newton, MA - 1/1/2015
Contemporary Psychodyanmic Psychotherapy: An Integrative Approach
North Falmouth, MA - 1/1/2015
Traumatic Loss, Heartbreak, and Relentless Hope
Chestnut Hill, MA - 1/1/2015
On the Capacity to Experience the Self as “Good Enough
Boston, MA - 1/1/2014
From Defense to Adaptation: The Ever-Evolving Psychodynamic Process
Newton, MA - 1/1/2014
Working Through Resistance and Relentlessness
Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Newton, MA - 1/1/2014
Modes of Therapeutic Action: Enhancement of Knowledge, Provision of Experience, and Engagement in Relationship
Multiple locations, 1999, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2014 - 1/1/2014
Impasse in Long-term Treatment of Young Male
Chapel Hill, NC - 1/1/2014
Summer Seminar: Contemporary Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: An Integrative Approach
Harvard Medical School ,Department Of Continuing Education, Edgartown, Massachusetts - 7/5/2013
From Defense to Adaptation: The Transformative Process
Boston, MA - 1/1/2013
Therapeutic Agents of Change: Dissonance, Disillusionment, and Detoxification
Newton, MA - 1/1/2013
Modes of Therapeutic Action: Awareness, Acceptance, Accountability, and Adaptability
California State University, Los Angeles, CA, 2012 - 1/1/2013
Integrating Four Modes of Therapeutic Action: Awareness, Acceptance, Accountability, and Adaptability
Los Angeles, CA - 1/1/2013
Modes of Therapeutic Action: Awareness, Acceptance, and Accountability
Dedham, MA - 1/1/2012
From Unwitting Enactment to Accountability and Empowerment
Boston, MA - 1/1/2012
My Odyssey: A Journey in Progress
Dedham, MA - 1/1/2012
The Capacity to Relent
North Falmouth, MA - 1/1/2011
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Other

How Does Psychotherapy Work?
Stark M, International Psychotherapy Institute
www.FreePsychotherapyBooks.org
1/1/2016
The Transformative Power of Optimal Stress: From Cursing the Darkness to Lighting a Candle
Stark M, International Psychotherapy Institute
www.FreePsychotherapyBooks.org
1/1/2015
Psychotherapeutic Moments: Putting the Words to Music
Stark M, International Psychotherapy Institute
www.FreePsychotherapyBooks.org
1/1/2015
An interview with Dr. Martha Stark on Relentless Hope (Nadzieja Wbrew Nadziei)
Stark M, Charaktery: Magazyn Psychologiczny
1/1/2014
Web Video Commentary on Presentation of “The Sandpile Model: Optimal Stress, Complexity, and Hormesis” at 10th Annual International Conference entitled “Dose Response ...
Stark M, University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA - 1/1/2011
Review of Energy – The Essence of Environmental Health (Vinitsky and Golos)
Stark M
1/1/2005
Homeostatic versus disruptive attunement
Stark M, Psychotherapy Book News: A Journal of Essays and Reviews
1/1/2000
Taking on the patient’s despair
Stark M, The NEW Psychotherapy Book News: A Journal of Essays and Reviews
1/1/2000
An interview with Dr. Martha Stark
Stark M, Psychotherapy Book News: A Journal of Essays and Reviews
1/1/1999
Using a conflict statement in an intervention
Stark M, Psychotherapy Book News: A Journal of Essays and Reviews
1/1/1998
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