Cardiac Self-Disclosure: Clinical and Theoretical Reflections

Practices psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and couples therapy in Pasadena, California. He earned two PhDs, one in counseling psychology from the University of Southern California in 1986, and a second in psychoanalysis from the New Center for Psychoanalysis in 1996. Shortly thereafter, he was certified in psychoanalysis by the American Psychoanalytic Association, which later bestowed upon him the status of a supervising and training psychoanalyst. He is also board certified in forensic psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology. He founded, serves on the board of directors of, and teaches at Rose City Center—a not-for-profit psychoanalytic psychotherapy clinic serving the economically disadvantaged in California. An awardwinning teacher, he lectures locally, nationally and internationally, including in Beijing, China, in Delhi and Ahmedabad, India, and in Tel Aviv, Israel.