Ruth Graver, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Training and Supervising Analyst
Private Office
200 West 90th Street, Suite 1G
New York, NY 10024
Tel: 212 496 0411
Professional Biography
Dr. Graver is a training and supervising analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research where she is co-chair of the Writing Program and former co-chair of the Curriculum committee (2013-2017). She teaches in a variety of courses in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy and is the 2016 recipient of the Howard Klar Teacher of the Year Award from the Center. Dr. Graver has a wide range of interests in psychoanalysis and psychiatry including clinical theory, technique and Attachment Theory.
Dr. Graver is in full-time private practice on the Upper West Side.
Selected Presentations and Publications
Graver, R. Emerging from deadness: A microanalysis of the analytic relationship. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 2020:68(1):59-82.
Cherry, S, Mann G, Graver R: Becoming a Training and Supervising Analyst: Interviews from the Columbia Postgraduate Analytic Practice Study. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2020: 101(2):300-319.
Cabaniss DL, Cherry S, Douglas CJ, Graver RL, Schwartz, AR: Psychodynamic Formulation. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2013.
Cabaniss, DL, Graver R: Mapping the Macroprocess. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 2008: 56 (4):1249-1260.
Advanced Courses
Education and Training
Wesleyan University, BA, 1984
Cornell University Medical College, MD, 1989
Harvard Medical School-Mt. Auburn Hospital, Medical Internship, 1990
Harvard Medical School-Cambridge Hospital, Psychiatry Residency, 1993
Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, Fellowship in Public Psychiatry, 1994
Psychoanalytic Training: Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Certificate in Psychoanalysis, 2005