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Adam Critchfield, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Candidate, Adult Psychoanalysis
Tel: 212-342-2791
Private Office 

622 West 168th Street
PH 16-Center
New York, NY  10032

Areas of Interest 

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

Professional Biography 

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.

Selected Presentations and Publications 

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

Education and Training 
B.A.: University of Texas at Austin, 2005
M.D.: Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 2011
Internship: Columbia University Medical Center/New York Presbyterian Hospital, 2012
Psychiatry Residency: Columbia University Medical Center/NYPH/NYSPI, 2015
Fellowship: Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry/Psychosomatic Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, 2016
Honors 

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

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