Karen Horney Clinic

The Karen Horney Clinic continues its various and vital programs of treatment. Further services are being provided to candidates-in-training and to graduates. As in the past, we are fulfilling the requirements of high standards of psychoanalytic work while offering the community a variety of services. Pilot projects, research and supervision of the medical staff remain a part of our ongoing programs.

Our basic therapeutic approach is psychoanalysis. In addition we offer psychoanalytically-oriented treatment for groups, families, the retarded, married couples, creative people, those with homosexual problems, the aged, the obese, adolescents and schizophrenics.

The professional staff of the Clinic now totals eighty-six. This includes sixty-six psychiatrists, nine full-time social workers, six trainees from Hunter College and Columbia University, one psychologist and two registered nurses, one of whom is doing her field placement work in the Day Care Center for her Masters program at Adelphi University, one recreational therapist, and one occupational therapist. Volunteers assist in the work of the Day Care Center program.

The following physicians are in charge of the various departments: Isidore Portnoy, Coordinator of Supervision; Harry Gershman, Coordinator of New Programs and Physician-in-Charge of Homosexual Patient Groups; Sidney Rosen and Sidney Rose, Physician-in-Charge of Group Therapy Programs; Gerald Niles, Physician-in-Charge, Children's Psychoanalytic Department, which includes the program for retarded patients, as well as the new school program for children with learning difficulties and the adolescent and children's programs; Theodore Rubin, Physician-in-Charge of the Obesity Program with Dr. Joseph Buchanan, Assistant; Jack Rubins, Physician-in-Charge, Psychoanalytic Day Care Center for Schizophrenia with Martin Rucker, Assistant; Benjamin Becker, Physician-in-Charge, Marital Psychoanalytic Consultation Service with Leonidas Samouilidis, Assistant; Bella V