Eric R. Marcus, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Director, Columbia Unviersity Center for Training and Research , Columbia University
Eric R. Marcus, MD is Director of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and professor of clinical psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is a training and supervising psychoanalyst.He is a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and of the American College of Psychoanalysts. His teaching awards include the Columbia University President's Teaching Award, the Roeske teaching award of the American Psychiatric Association, the Shabshin teaching award of the American Psychoanalytic Association, the regional teaching award of the Association for Academic Psychiatry, and several College of Physician and Surgeons teaching awards including Commencement Speaker. He is past president of the New York County district branch of the American Psychiatric Association and a past president of the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine. His areas of research involve symbolic alterations of reality, in psychotic and near psychotic phenomena, and in social psychoanalytic science research using medical student dreams to study the effect of medical pedagogy and the stages of development of the capacity for medical empathy.
Undergraduate: Columbia College of Columbia University, AB, 1961-1965
Medical School: University of Wisconsin, M.D., 1969
Doctoral Degree: Columbia University, graduate work in cultural anthroplogy, 1970-1972
Internship: New York Bellvue, 1969 - 1970
Residency: New York State Psychiatric Institute/NewYork Presbyterian Hospital, Psychiatry, 1972-1975
Fellowship: Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Certificate in Psychoanalysis, 1982-1987
Board Certifications: certified in psychiatry 1977 certified in psychoanalysis 1994
Subspeciality Certifications: PSYCHOAN
• adult psychiatry
• psychoanalysis
Address:
NYS Psychiatric Institute Room 1710 Unit/Box:63 1051 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10032
1) symbolic alterations of reality in psychosis, dreams, art and culture 2) the emotional development process of becoming a physician as revealed in medical student dreams about medical school 3) neuro-mental experience of artistic aesthetics 4) development of modern ego psychology theory
1. Eric R Marcus: Psychosis and Near Psychosis: Ego Function, Symbol Structure, Treatment revised second edition, International Universities Press, Madison, CT, USA, 2003
1. Eric R Marcus: Medical student dreams about medical school--The unconscious developmental process of becoming a physician.. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 2003;84: 367-386
1. Eric R Marcus: Medical humanism and the developmental professionalization process of medical education.. Academic Medicine 1999;74: 1211-1215
1. Eric R. Marcus, MD: Modern Ego Psychology. Journal of the Americn Psychoanalytic Association 1999;47(3): 543-871
