W. Craig Tomlinson

Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University

W. Craig Tomlinson, MD, is a psychoanalyst in private practice and Asst. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University, where he has taught at the Center for Psychoanalytic Theory and Research for over two decades and directs the Freud curriculum. He also designed and teaches courses on Freud and psychoanalysis to graduate and undergraduate students at the Psychoanalytic Studies Program of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia. He is also currently President of the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine, and has long served on the Board of the Sigmund Freud Archives of the Library of Congress. He has written on Freud, the history of psychoanalysis, and the development of psychology in eighteenth-century Germany, and has translated works from the German on psychoanalysis, art, and music.

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Resurgence of Freud

For most of the 20th century Freud’s thoughts were foundational in understanding mental functioning while also offering the consensus approach to treating mental conditions, from neurosis to other more severe psychopathologies. With the advent of psychotropic medications and advances delving more deeply into the brain’s biology, the psychoanalytic theories of Freud and his followers lost much... read more! »