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Eric R. Marcus, M.D.

Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Former Director, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
Training and Supervising Analyst
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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) differential diagnosis and co-morbidity; combined treatments 
2) development of modern ego psychology theory
3) symbolic alterations of reality in psychosis, dreams, art and culture
4) the emotional process of becoming a physician using medical student dreams to guide curriculum that develops medical empathy

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. 

Research

His research is in modern ego psychology. He believes modern ego psychology is an umbrella meta theory for psychoanalysis. He studies the ego’s uses of symbolic processes of affect representations, especially symbolic alterations of reality. He is interested their phenomenology, neurophysiology, psychic structure and adaptational uses by individuals and culture. He applies this to the understanding and treatment of psychotic and near psychotic phenomena and to psychodynamic social science research using medical student dreams and group phenomena to study the stages of development of the capacity for medical empathy and the effect of medical pedagogy. 

Selected Presentations and Publications 

Eric R. Marcus: (2023) Modern Ego Psychology and Human Sexual Experience – The Meaning of Treatment. Routledge 

Eric R Marcus: (2017) Psychosis and Near Psychosis: Ego Function, Symbol Structure, Treatment. (revised third edition) Routledge

Marcus, E.R.: (2003) Medical student dreams about medical school--The unconscious developmental process of becoming a physician. International Journal of Psychoanalysis; 84: p. 367-386

Marcus, E.R. (1999) Medical humanism and the developmental professionalization process of medical education. Academic Medicine 74: 1211-1215

Marcus, E.R. (1999) Modern Ego Psychology. Journal of the Americn Psychoanalytic Association 47 (3): p543-871

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 
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