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Author David Mintz, MD is the Director of Psychiatric Education and Associate Director of Training at the Austen Riggs Center, where he conducts psychoanalytic treatments with a complex, co-morbid population of patients who have not benefited sufficiently from first and second-line treatments. In the context of this work, he and his colleagues have developed a psychodynamically-informed approach to pharmacologic treatment-resistance. His book on the topic is Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology: Caring for the Treatment Resistant Patient, published by American Psychiatric Publishing. His other primary focus is on integrating psychodynamics into medical education. Dr. Mintz directs a psychodynamic elective at the Austen Riggs Center for medical students and residents, has spearheaded the development of a national Psychotherapy Fair for interested medical students, and directs an annual conference at Riggs on psychodynamic applications in work with complex and difficult-to-treat patients. He is the 2024 recipient of the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society Outstanding Psychiatrist Award in Education. He is a past Trustee of the American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis, recent past leader of the Psychotherapy Caucus of the American Psychiatric Association, a member of the Psychotherapy Committee of AADPRT and the Medical Student Education Committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association.
Interviewer Catherine Stevenson, MD is a Candidate's and Consulting Analyst at the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies in Houston, Texas and also a clinical faculty member of the Menninger Department of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine. She is a former president of the Houston Psychoanalytic Society and has completed the Neuroscience Education Institute Master Psychopharmacologist Program with high honors. A portion of her practice is providing medication management for patients in therapy or psychoanalysis with other members of the Center and the Society. Since 2011 Dr. Stevenson has presented a workshop, "Psychopharmacology for Non-Prescribers," every few years to update the HPS community. In her academic work she explores the intersections of spirituality, art, and psychology, and has a doctorate in spirituality from the Angelicum in Rome. She is currently working on a MFA in nonfiction writing at Sewanee. In Houston she can found painting in the studio at the Glassell School or doing tai chi on the lawn of the Asia Society.
REFERENCES
King, I., & Shapiro, Y. (2022). Learning the “science of the art of prescribing”: From evidence-based algorithms to individualized medicine in psychiatric care. Journal of Psychiatric Practice®, 28(5), 409-420.
Mintz, D (2022). Psychodynamic psychopharmacology: Caring for the treatment-resistant patient, Washington DC.: American Psychiatric Publishing.
Mintz, D (2022). Recovery from childhood psychiatric treatment: Addressing the meaning of medications. Psychodynamic Psychiatry, 50(1), 131-148.
Mintz, D and Azer, J (2024). Integrating psychoanalysis and pharmacotherapy. In G. Gabbard, B. Litowitz, & Stern, D. (Eds.) Textbook of Psychoanalysis, 3rd Edition, Washington DC.: American Psychiatric Publishing.
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