Clarice Kestenbaum, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Director of Training Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Emerita, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Clarice J. Kestenbaum, M.D. is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and was the Director of Training in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons for nearly 20 years.
Dr. Kestenbaum received her M.D. from UCLA Medical School and completed her residency in general psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry at Columbia. She is also a graduate of the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center for Training and Research in adult and child psychoanalysis. She was Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at St. Luke’s Hospital from 1971-1984.
Dr. Kestenbaum has served as President of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and President of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry.
Dr. Kestenbaum has been acknowledged by many of her peers as one of psychiatry’s leading clinicians. A recipient of the Distinguished Psychiatry Award from the American Psychiatric Association, she has twice received the Exie Welsh Lectureship Award, as well as the Hulse Award from the New York Council on Child Psychiatry. She has also received the New York State Psychiatric Institute’s Alumni Award for Distinguished Work in Child Psychiatry in 2001. Dr. Kestenbaum is also the recipient of the 2004 Agnes Purcell McGavin Award for Distinguished Career Achievement in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
For almost 30 years Dr. Kestenbaum has been a consultant to the New York Longitudinal Study of Children at Risk for Schizophrenia. She received the Alexander Gralnick Award for Research in Schizophrenia from the Child Welfare League of America in appreciation of those efforts.
Dr. Kestenbaum is the author of over 50 journal articles and has contributed chapters to numerous books in the field and has produced a series of child development teaching tapes.
Dr. Kestenbaum is a co-founder of CARING at Columbia, an organization that helps inner-city children-at-risk through the arts and literature. In 2008, Dr. Kestenbaum received a generous gift of $3 million as an endowed professor. The Clarice Kestenbaum Professorship will support an individual with demonstrated excellence in training and education in child psychiatry and commitment to addressing the complex needs of children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders. A portion of the pledge in the amount of $500,000 will support a post-graduate clinical fellow who has completed a two-year residency in child and adolescent psychiatry.
Undergraduate: University of California at Los Angeles, BA, 1947-1950
Graduate: Hebrew University Medical School, 1955-1958
Medical School: University of California at Los Angeles, MD, 1958-1960
Internship: Los Angeles Veterans Administration Hospital, 1960-1961
Residency: Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center , General Psychiatry, 1961-1963
Residency: Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center , Child Psychiatry, 1963-1965
Post-Graduate: Columbia Psychoanalytic Center for Training and Research, Psychoanalytic Training, 1963-1968
Post-Graduate: Psychoanalytic Center for Training and Research, Child Psychoanalytic Training, 1973-1978
Board Certifications: American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology American Board of Child Psychiatry
Subspeciality Certifications: Psychoanalytic Training Child Psychoanalytic Training
• General Psychiatry
• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• Psychoanalysis
Address:
NYS Psychiatric Institute Room 1813 Unit/Box:74 1051 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10032
1. Kestenbaum CJ, Bird HR: A reliability study of the Mental Health Assessment Form for school age children. Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry 1978;17(2): 1338-347
1. Kestenbaum CJ: Children-at-risk for manic depressive illness-Possible predictors. American Journal of Psychiatry 1979;136(9): 1206-1208
1. Decina P, Kestenbaum CJ, Faber S, Kron L, Gargan M, Sackheim H, Fieve R: Clinical and psychological assessment of children of bipolar probands. American Journal of Psychiatry 1983;140(5): 548-553
1. Kestenbaum CJ: Memory, Narrative and the Search for Identity in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Second Chance. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychotherapy 2003;3: 647-661
1. Kestenbaum CJ, Canino IA, Pleak RR: Schizophrenic disorders of childhood and adolescence, American Psychiatric Press, Washington, DC, 1989
