Psychotherapy Training

Cognitive-Behavioral Training

Rick Handel, Ph.D., teaches the CBT course in the PGY-1 year. He supervises the clinical experience and the case conferences along with Barbara Cubic, Ph.D., and David Spiegel, M.D.

Psychodynamic Training

Psychodynamic psychotherapy training is continuous throughout the second, third and fourth years of residency. The PGY-1 introductory course is taught by Janet Schiff, LCSW, a local psychoanalyst. The didactic courses for the second-, third-, and fourth-year residents are taught by Jerome Blackman, M.D., FAPA, FIPA, FAPsa, who is a clinical professor in the department of psychiatry at EVMS, a locally based training and supervising analyst with the Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the New York Freudian Society in Washington, D.C. (a component institute of the International Psychoanalytical Association) and a fellow of the American College of Psychoanalysts.

Each resident carries several long-term psychodynamic patients, and it is through individual supervision of cases that the essence of psychodynamic technique is learned. Weekly case supervision is available with psychiatrists within the department as well as affiliated faculty members in the community. Second-, third-, and fourth-year residents also engage in a bi-monthly continuous case conference with Paul Sayegh, M.D., and Jorge Cortina, M.D.

Group and Family Psychotherapy

Group therapy and family therapy are taught in the second year of didactics. During the third year of training, EVMS residents join Portsmouth Naval Hospital psychiatry residents for a full year of outpatient psychodynamic group psychotherapy. Residents are encouraged to incorporate family therapy into their third-year outpatient experience.