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Jennifer Downey, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Psychiatrist, Research Assessment and Training,
New York State Psychiatric Institute
Attending Psychiatrist,
Columbia University Medical Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital
Faculty,
Columbia Psychoanalytic Center
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Jennifer Downey is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York and a member of the faculty of the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center.
Following graduation from medical school and residency in psychiatry at Columbia, she held a 5-year Research Scientist Development Award from NIMH and attended the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center, graduating with a certificate in Psychoanalysis.
Dr. Downey has been a researcher, educator and clinical scholar in the areas of women's health, psychoanalysis and sexuality. Her early research concerned female sex hormones, and she wrote a series of influential papers and chapters on the reproductive cycle and psychiatric conditions in women. This work discussed not only infertility but adolescent sexuality, premenstrual affective symptoms, the treatment of psychiatric disorders during pregnancy and post-partum, and emotional effects of cancers of the reproductive tract in women.
In the early 1990's Dr. Downey began a collaboration with Dr. Richard C. Friedman. Since then the two have published many articles and books together. An article written at the invitation of the editors of the NEJM was widely influential in changing attitudes about homosexuality in the medical profession.
Their most recent book was published by Columbia University Press in 2002. This book, which achieved widespread acclaim, was reissued in paperback as Sexual Orientation and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Sexual Science and Clinical Practice (2008).
In 2008 Dr. Downey was chosen as the first Teichner Scholar by the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry (AAPDP) and the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training (AADPRT). She served as a visiting scholar of psychodynamic education at the University of Kentucky.
Jennifer Downey lives and works in New York City where she maintains a practice in psychodynamic psychiatry and teaches in the Psychiatric Residency and Psychoanalytic Center at Columbia.
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Undergraduate: Harvard College, B.A., 1967
Graduate: University of California, M.A., 1968
Medical School: Case-Western Reserve, M.D., 1976
Internship: Cleveland Metropolitan General Hosp., Straight Medicine, 1976 - 1977
Residency: Cleveland Metropolitan General Hosp., Straight Medicine, 1977 - 1978
Residency: New York Psychiatric Institute, Psychiatry, 1978 - 1981
Fellowship: Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center/NYS Psychiatric Institute, Research Fellow, Psychoendocrinology Research Unit, 1980–1982
Post-Graduate: Center for Analytic Training and Research, Columbia University, Certificate in Psychoanalysis, 1988
Board Certifications: Diplomate, National Board of Medical Examiners, 1977
Board Certification in Psychiatry, 1982
Subspeciality Certifications: Certificate in Psychoanalysis, Center for Analytic Training and Research, Columbia University, 1988
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• Women's Mental Health
• Sexuality and Sexual Orientation
• Effects of Physical Illness on Mental Health
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Address:
108 East 91 St. Suite 1A
New York, NY 10128
USA
Phone: 212-534-2515
jid1@Columbia.edu
Personal Homepage
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Areas of interest include hormones, the brain and sexuality; mental health effects of physical illness.
Doing current research into the relationship between psychiatric disorders and sexuality.
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1. Friedman RC, Downey JI: Sexual Orientation and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Sexual Science and Clinical Practice, Columbia University Press, New York, NY, United States, 2008
2. Friedman RC,Downey JI: Sexual psychodynamics: I: The origins of male aggression. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry 2007;35(1): 97-115
3. Friedman RC, Downey JI: Sexual differentiation of behavior: The foundation of a developmental model of psychosexuality. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 2008;56: 147-175
4. Downey JI, Friedman RC: Homosexuality: Psychotherapeutic Issues. British Journal of Psychotherapy 2008;24(4): 429-468
5. Downey JI: What do women want?: Psychodynamics of women’s sexuality in 2008. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry 2009;37(2): 253-268
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