MichaelDennisGarrettMD

Summary

• Michael Garrett, MD
  Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychiatry
  SUNY Downstate Medical Center
  mgarrett50@aol.com
  michael.garrett@downstate.edu
  
  Dr. Garrett presently lives and works in the small town of Lambertville, NJ within view of the Delaware River Canal. He was formerly the Vice Chairman of Psychiatry at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, where he is currently Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychiatry. He is also on the faculty of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education (IPE) affiliated with NYU Medical Center in New York City. He received his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed his residency training in Psychiatry at Bronx Municipal Hospital Center. Most of Dr. Garrett’s professional career has been spent in the public psychiatry sector, first at North Central Bronx Hospital, where he became Associate Director of Psychiatry, and then Medical Director in 1995. In 1997 he became Deputy Director of Psychiatry at Bellevue Hospital, where he was responsible for clinical services. In 2003 he moved to SUNY Downstate as Vice Chairman for Clinical Services. At present his time is evenly divided between patient care, supervision of psychotherapy for psychosis, including consultation with a number of first-episode psychosis teams around the country, teaching, and clinical writing. He has for many years had an interest in the difficulties clinicians encounter when trying to develop a relationship with psychotic individuals who have a fundamentally different view of reality than the clinician. He has a particular interest in the relationship between psychosis and ordinary mental processes and combined psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral treatments of psychosis, as detailed in his recent book: Garrett, M. (2019) Psychotherapy for Psychosis: Integrating Cognitive Behavioral and Psychodynamic Treatments. Guilford Press