Robert Michels

Walsh McDermott University Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, Weill-Cornell Medical College

Robert Michels, M.D. is the Walsh McDermott University Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry at Weill-Cornell Medical College, where he previously served as Provost, Dean, and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry. He is former Joint Editor-in-Chief of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, and a former Training and Supervising Analyst at Columbia Psychoanalytic Center.

Participant In:

The Future of Psychiatry

Saturday, November 10th, 2018 at 2:30pm

Past Event

Psychoanalysis ushered a new era of understanding psychiatric conditions which lasted half a century. The advent of psychopharmacology moved the focus back to the importance of diagnosis and selection of the appropriate medication. As we learn more about the brain, with increasingly sophisticated technology, we are looking towards a revolution in diagnosis, etiology and treatment… read more »