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Professional Interests and Activities
Dr. Smith is currently in full time private practice in Scarsdale, NY. In addition, he is a volunteer faculty member at New York Medical College, where he teaches psychotherapy for psychiatrists in training. Over the past 15 years, he has focused on idea-tools to help therapists understand and guide the therapeutic process across behavioral and psychodynamic lines.
Background and Experience
Dr. Smith obtained a BA from Stanford University and attended UCLA School of Medicine. He completed internship in internal medicine at SUNY Syracuse, and residency in psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY. He began private practice in 1976, and became Director of Alcoholism Services at Westchester Medical Center in 1981. In 1989, he founded Cortland Medical, Westchester's first licensed private outpatient addiction rehabilitation program. In 1994 he co-founded study group for therapists working with dissociation and multiple personality. In 1996 he co-founded www.AddictionResourceGuide.com, a website providing free profiles of over 200 addiction recovery program. He is past president of the Psychiatric Society of Westchester, a district branch of the American Psychiatric Association, and currently chairs the society's Committee on Private Practice.
Internet Publication
Dr. Smith is co-publisher of http://www.AddictionResourceGuide.com, a web site providing detailed profiles of over 200 addiction treatment facilities as well as general information about treatment to consumers and professionals.
Publications
Epilogue to: A Fractured Mind, by Robert B. Oxnam, Hyperion, Boston 2005.
"Reexamining Psychotherapeutic Action Through the Lens of Trauma" Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, 32(4), 613-631. 2004.
"Alcoholism and Free Will: a Clinical Approach". New York Medical Quarterly, 8:3, 1988.