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622 West 168th Street
PH 16-Center
New York, NY 10032
Psychosomatic Medicine, Illness Anxiety, Somatic Symptom Disorders Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Anxiety, Depression, Trauma-related and Personality Disorders Psychopharmacology in the Medically/Neurologically Ill Integrated Mental Health and Primary Care
Dr. Critchfield is a consultation-liaison psychiatrist, working at the interface of medical and psychiatric illness with a longstanding interest in mind-body processes. As a faculty member and attending psychiatrist at CUMC he teaches and supervises residents and fellows in inpatient consultation-liaison and outpatient collaborative care psychiatry. As a CL psychiatry fellow, he led the on-site implementation of a collaborative care program in a family medicine clinic that provides psychiatric consultation and treatment in the primary care setting to an underserved population. He has trained in transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP) and was a psychoanalytic fellow at Columbia prior to becoming a candidate in adult psychoanalysis. He also maintains a private practice.
2018 “Using Principles of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy to Treat Patients with Personality Disorders in the Medical Setting” Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (ACLP) Annual Meeting
2017 Shapiro, P. and Critchfield, A. “Cardiovascular Disorders”. Kaplan and Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry 2016. Contributor. The American Psychiatric Publishing Study Guide for the Psychiatry Board Examination. Edited by Muskin PR and Dickerman AL. American Psychiatric Publishing
2015. Critchfield, Adam and Jack Pula. “On Psychotherapy, LGBT Identity and Cultural Visibility: In Conversation with Alison Bechdel”. Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health. Volume 19, Issue 4
2010 Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Honor Society
2007 Daniel Noyes Brown Scholar in Primary Care, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
2005 Phi Beta Kappa