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About:
Dr. Spitz received her medical degree from the University of
Pennsylvania and completed her internship and residency in psychiatry
at The
University of Chicago in 1982. She is
Board Certified in Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and
Neurology. She was a member of the
faculty of The University of Chicago Department of Psychiatry from 1982
through
1988, then served as Director of Inpatient Psychiatry, Director of
Residency
Training and Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts-New England Medical
Center in
Boston Massachusetts from 1988 to 2000, and is currently the Education
Mission Director
and Director of Residency Training in The University of Chicago
Department of
Psychiatry. She spent three years in
Britain in the National Health Service from 2000 through 2003.
Dr. Spitz has been
a leading psychiatric educator for over 20
years, serving as President of the Association for Academic Psychiatry,
a
distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and
active on the
Scientific Program Committee, the Committee on Women and the Committee
on
Family Violence of the American Psychiatric Association.
She is on the executive council of the
Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry, and
serves on the
editorial boards of Focus, Academic Psychiatry, and Philosophy,
Psychiatry and Psychology. She
received a Junior Faculty Development Award from the National Institute
of
Health in 1987, and has received numerous teaching awards in the course
of her
career both at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston, and at The
University of Chicago. She teaches a
variety of courses for medical students and residents, and is
particularly
interested in psychotherapy training in residency education, ethical
and
cultural issues in psychiatry, and the intersection of philosophy and
psychiatry.
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Selected Publications:
- Spitz D. “Collaboration between Psychiatrist and Patient:
How Avoidable is Paternalism?” Annual Review of Law and Ethics, Duncker
& Humblot, Berlin, 4:1996.
- Spitz D. “Treatment of the Seriously and Persistently
Mentally Ill on an Acute Psychiatric Unit of a General Hospital,” in
Stephen Soreff, ed., Handbook for the Treatment of the Seriously
Mentally Ill, Hogrefe and Huber, Seattle, WA, 1996.
- Spitz D. “How to Cut the Psychiatric Pie: The Dilemma of
Character,” Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology 6 (4): 311-16, 1999.
- Spitz D, Riba M and Hansen-Grant S. “Residency Training
Issues in Collaborative Treatment” in Riba M and Balon R, eds.,
Psychopharmacology and Psychotherapy—a Collaborative Approach, American
Psychiatric Press, Washington, 1999.
- Spitz D. Book Review of Psychotherapy for Borderline
Personality by Clarkin JF, Yeomans FE and Kernberg OF, John Wiley &
Sons, New York, 1999 in J Psychotherapy Practice and Research,
9:256-257, 2000.
- Spitz D. “What is the Role of Psychotherapy in Bipolar
Disorder?—Part I” Medscape Psychiatry & Mental Health
8(2) 2003.
- Spitz D. “What is the Role of Psychotherapy in Bipolar
Disorder?—Part II” Medscape Psychiatry & Mental Health
8(2) 2003.
- Spitz D. “What if There Are Limits to Understanding?”
Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology 10(3):233-5, 2003.
- (In press) Spitz D. How Much Truth and How Much
Reconciliation? Intrapsychic, Interpersonal and Social Aspects of
Resolution. In Potter N (ed) Trauma, Truth and Reconciliation:
Healing Damaged Relationships, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
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