RichardSSchwartzMD

Summary

• Richard Schwartz, MD, is a psychiatrist based in Cambridge, MA. He completed his medical education at Harvard Medical School in 1974, followed by an internship in internal medicine at Mount Auburn Hospital and a psychiatry residency at McLean Hospital. Currently, he is Senior Consultant for the MGH/McLean Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program and Co-Director of the Program in Psychodynamics. He is also Associate Professor of Psychiatry (part-time) Harvard Medical School and on the faculty of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the Psychodynamic Couple and Family Institute of New England.
  
  Particular areas of interest are issues surrounding social isolation, loneliness, social connection, and lasting marriage. In addition to professional publications, with his wife, Jacqueline Olds, MD, he has co-authored three books for general audiences on these subjects. Together, they have also developed and brought to market a wearable light tracker to improve the effectiveness of bright light therapy in psychiatry. His accolades include multiple awards for his teaching and being listed as one of the Best Doctors in America by Best Doctors, Inc.