Ruth Baer Maetzener, Ph.D.
Candidate, Adult, Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis
Private Office
950 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10028
Areas of Interest
Mother-Infant Dyads, Early Childhood, Latency, Pre-Adolescence, Adolescence, Young Adult. Parenting issues. Expatriate issues. Migration, immigration and cultural assimilation. Treatment in English, German and Spanish.
Professional Biography
Originally trained as a teacher, I have been working as a clinical psychologist for 20 years. After training in couples in family therapy, I completed training at Columbia’s Parent Infant Psychotherapy Program (PIP). I have experience in outpatient as well inpatient treatment modalities with adolescents and their families.
Selected Presentations and Publications
M.A.: Follow-up study of children not admitted to a Day Treatment Center.
Ph.D.: Eating and Feeding: The Significance of Food in Western Culture.
Education and Training
Teachers College, Zurich, 1981
M.D. University of Zurich, Switzerland, 1999
Psychology Internship, St. Christophers, Dobbs Gerry, 2002
Parent Infant Program, Columbia Psychoanalysis Center, 2016