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David Mintz, M.D.
The Austen Riggs Center
Biography
David Mintz, M.D., is the Director of Psychiatric Education, Associate Director of Training, and Team Leader at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The center is a psychodynamic tertiary care center, specializing in the treatment of patients who are complex, co-morbid, and treatment refractory. To address the needs of these patients, Dr. Mintz and his colleagues developed a psychodynamically-informed, patient-centered model for addressing psychological and interpersonal interferences with the healthy use of pharmacotherapy.
Dr. Mintz’s book Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology: Caring for the Treatment-Resistant Patient, and dozens of other publications by him, explore those principles. He has led the Psychotherapy Caucus of the American Psychiatric Association; been a trustee of the American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis; was a member of the Medical Student Education Committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association; and was on the editorial boards of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and The American Journal of Psychotherapy.