Joseph Merlino (doctor)

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Joseph Merlino is a psychiatrist and author. He is the psychiatry adviser to the New York Daily News. Merlino is the Director of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Queens Hospital Center in New York City. He is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at New York Medical College, where he is also Supervising and Training Analyst. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a Fellow of The American Academy of Psychoanalysis & Dynamic Psychiatry, and a member of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry and the American College of Psychiatrists. Dr. Merlino is the immediate Past-President of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry, one of the nation's four major psychoanalytic organizations. He is Senior Editor of Freud at 150: 21st Century Essays on a Man of Genius, due to be published October 28 by Jason Aronson Press, and is co-editor of American Psychiatry & Homosexuality,published by Haworth Press. Dr. Merlino is also an expert consultant with The Forensic Panel in New York City. He is the former director of community and ambulatory psychiatry at Bellevue Hospital Center, the oldest public hospital in the United States. Dr. Merlino maintains a private practice of psychodynamic psychotherapy in Manhattan, New York.

External Links

• David Shankbone interviews Dr. Joseph Merlino on sexuality, insanity, fetishes and Freud
• Forensic Panel biography

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