H. Spencer Bloch
H. Spencer Bloch, MD, has practiced child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry and psychoanalysis for forty-five years in San Rafael, CA. An honours graduate of Amherst and AOA from Cornell University Medical College, he completed medical internship at Bellevue Hospital in New York, and psychiatric residencies at Harvard’s Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Judge Baker Guidance Center, and Children’s Hospital Medical Center, serving as chief resident following military service in Vietnam and San Francisco. He trained and taught courses on adolescent and oedipal development at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, and is certified in child/adolescent, and adult psychoanalysis, and board certified in child/adolescent, and general psychiatry.
Treating The Other Third: Vicissitudes of Adolescent Development and Therapy
As “evidence-based research” on psychodynamic psychotherapy for children and adolescents gains momentum, it seems to be following adult psychiatry in moving increasingly toward biomedical/genetic... (more)