Rigid Character: A Modern Ego Psychology View

Training and supervising analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He is a professor of clinical psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. His research is in modern ego psychology, studying symbolic processes and their organizations by the ego in affect representations and the structures of mental experience. He is especially interested in symbolic alterations of reality in individuals and in groups. His latest book is Psychosis and Near Psychosis: Ego Function, Symbol Structure, Treatment (revised third edition, , Routledge).