Eric R Marcus, MD

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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.

Academic Appointments

Professor of Clinical Psychiatry

Administrative Titles

Director, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training & Research

Hospital Affiliations

NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Gender

Male

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Credentials & Experience

Education & Training

University of Wisconsin Medical School
Residency: New York State Psychiatric Institute

Board Certifications

Psychiatry

Research

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 5) the differential diagnosis and combined medication and psychotherapy of psychotic and near psychotic conditions, with and without co-morbid personality disorders 6) curricular change to catalyze emotional growth and development of the capacity for medical empathy, the structure and use of symbolic alterations of reality

Selected Publications

Eric R Marcus: Psychosis and Near Psychosis: Ego Function, Symbol Structure, Treatment. revised second edition, International Universities Press, Madison, CT, USA, 2003
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
Eric R Marcus: Medical humanism and the developmental professionalization process of medical education. Academic Medicine 1999;74:1211-1215
Eric R. Marcus, MD: Modern Ego Psychology. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 1999;47(3):543-871


For a complete list of publications, please visit PubMed.gov