30 years experience in Private Practice of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.

15 years as Chief of the Clinical Psychophysiology Research Laboratory, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute with papers published on:

• Psychosomatics (Mind‑Body relationship and the study of how stress causes medical illness))
• Creativity and the Creative State of Mind
• Alexithymia  (Impaired capacity for naming feelings)
• Self Psychology  (A subdivision of Psychoanalysis that focuses on self experience)
• Object Relations Psychoanalysis  ( A subdivision of psychoanalysis that focuses on treatment of compulsive lifelong pattern of dysfunctional adult relationships originating with dysfunctional childhood relationships with parents.)
• Biofeedback  (An effective method of learning self-regulation of healthy  states of mind utilizing visual or auditory feedback about changes in bodily physiology such as heart rate, breathing patterns, finger temperature, EEG, and palmer (finger) sweating.)
• Psychopharmacology and Dynamic Psychotherapy

Professional Organizations

• American Psychiatric Association
• Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry
• Association of Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback
• American Society for Headache
• Southern California Psychiatric Association

Professional Training

• Medicine  -  Harvard Medical School
• Psychiatry  -  UCLA
• Psychoanalysis  -  Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute
• Neurophysiology  -  Baylor Medical School

Teaching Institutions

• UCLA School of Medicine (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry)
• The New Center for Psychoanalytic (formally Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society) (Senior Instructor)
• Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Supervising and Training Analyst)
• California Graduate Institute for Clinical Psychology (Supervising and Training Analyst)