Degrees:
- Harvard, A.B., cum laude, 1962
- Yale Medical School, M.D., 1966
Occupation:
Practicing Child and Adult Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst; Clinical Professor Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Pediatrics, George Washington University Medical School; Supervising Child Psychoanalyst, Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, Chair, Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders (ICDL), Co-Chair, Council on Human Development.
Professional Activities:
Researcher on the prevention and treatment of emotional and developmental disorders in infants and children; Chair, ICDL (1997-); a founder and president (1975-84) of ZERO TO THREE: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families; Chairman, Diagnostic Classification Committee, ZERO TO THREE: NCITF (1988-96); Past Chief, Mental Health Study Center and Clinical Infant Development Program, National Institute of Mental Health; Past Member, Surgeon General’s Task Force on Infant Mortality; past Regional Vice President, World Association for Infant Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines.Editorial Boards (Present and Past): Clinical Infant Reports (Chair); Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Journal of Preventive Psychiatry, Journal of Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Infant Mental Health Journal, Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research; Journal of Developmental and Learning Disorders (Chair).
Publications:
Over 100 articles and chapters.Author or editor of over 35 monographs and books. Books include Toward a Psychology of Global Interdependency (with Stuart Shanker), The Secure Child, The Four-Thirds Solution: Solving the Childcare Crisis in American Today; The Irreducible Needs of Children (co-authored with T. Berry Brazelton, M.D.), Building Healthy Minds, The Growth of the Mind, The Child with Special Needs, Developmentally Based Psychotherapy, The Challenging Child, Playground Politics: The Emotional Development of the School-Aged Child, Infancy and Early Childhood: The Practice of Clinical Assessment and Intervention with Emotional and Developmental Challenges, The Development of the Ego, Psychopathology and Adaptation in Infancy and Early Childhood, The Clinical Interview of the Child, Intelligence and Adaptation: An Integration of Psychoanalytic and Piagetian Developmental Psychology, First Feelings, The Essential Partnership. The formulations of Emotional Milestones and related strategies to facilitate emotional growth have been featured in a PBS NOVA documentary (“Life’s First Feelings”) which received the American Psychological Association’s 1986 award for Best Educational Program; the basis for a video tape entitled “Exploring First Feelings,” being shown to new mothers in over 200 hospitals; and a video tape for educators and parents entitled “Floor Time,” produced by Scholastic, Inc. Work featured in The Washington Post, Newsweek, Time Magazine, PBS NewsHour, ABC’s Nightline and on the ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN News.
Honors:
The American Psychiatric Association’s Ittleson Prize for outstanding contributions to Child Psychiatry Research and the American Orthopsychiatric Association’s Ittleson Prize for outstanding contributions to American mental health, the only individual to receive both Ittleson awards; The Edward A. Strecker Award for outstanding contributions to American psychiatry; Distinguished Psychiatrist Lecturer Award from the Scientific Program Committee of the American Psychiatric Association; The United States Public Health Service Special Recognition Award; The Heintz Hartmann Prize and the Mary Allen Award for outstanding contributions to American psychoanalysis; Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association; Elected to the American College of Psychiatry and the American College of Psychoanalysis.
