Eric R. Marcus, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Former Director, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
Training and Supervising Analyst
Private Office
4 East 89th Street, New York, NY 10128 Tel: (212) 427-0543
Areas of Interest
Clinical practice interests: general adult psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and psychotherapy
Academic interests:
1) symbolic alterations of reality in psychosis, dreams, art and culture
2) the emotional development process of becoming a physician as revealed in medical student dreams about medical school
3) neuro-mental experience of artistic aesthetics
4) development of modern ego psychology theory
5) comorbiitity of combined treatments
6) curricular change to catalyze emotional growth and development of the capacity for medical empathy, the structure and use of symbolic alterations of reality
Professional Biography
Eric Marcus, MD is Former Director of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and professor of clinical psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is a training and supervising psychoanalyst. He is a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and of the American College of Psychoanalysts. His teaching awards include the Columbia University President's Teaching Award, the Roeske teaching award of the American Psychiatric Association, the Shabshin teaching award of the American Psychoanalytic Association, the regional teaching award of the Association for Academic Psychiatry, and several College of Physician and Surgeons teaching awards including Commencement Speaker. He is past president of the New York County district branch of the American Psychiatric Association and a past president of the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine. His areas of research involve symbolic alterations of reality, in psychotic and near psychotic phenomena, and in psychodynamic social science research using medical student dreams to study the effect of medical pedagogy and the stages of development of the capacity for medical empathy.
Selected Presentations and Publications
Eric R Marcus: Psychosis and Near Psychosis: Ego Function, Symbol Structure, Treatment
revised third edition, International Universities Press, Madison, CT, USA, 2017
Eric R Marcus: Medical student dreams about medical school--The unconscious developmental process of becoming a physician.. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 2003;84: 367-386
Eric R Marcus: Medical humanism and the developmental professionalization process of medical education. Academic Medicine 1999;74: 1211-1215
Eric R. Marcus, MD: Modern Ego Psychology. Journal of the Americn Psychoanalytic Association 1999;47(3): 543-871
Education and Training
Undergraduate: Columbia College of Columbia University, 1965
Medical School: University of Wisconsin, M.D., 1969
Internship: New York Bellevue, 1969 - 1970
Residency: New York State Psychiatric Institute/NewYork Presbyterian Hospital, Psychiatry, 1972-1975
Fellowship: Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Certificate in Psychoanalysis, 1982-1987
Curriculum Vitae
