Michelle Friedman, MD
Degree
M.D.
Title
Director of Pastoral Counseling, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School
Clinical Appointments/Hospital Affiliation
Associate Clinical Professor, Mt. Sinai Hospital
Description of Practice/Services Offered
Psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychopharmacology, psychoanalysis, reproductive psychiatry, psychiatry and religious issues
Areas of Research
Orthodox Jewish Women and Sexual Life, Pastoral Counseling education for religious seminary students
Professional Education
N.Y.U. School of Medicine 1978
St.Vincent’s Hospital and Medical Center – Rotating medical internship 1978-79
Mt. Sinai Hospital and Medical Center – Psychiatry residency 1979-82 Montefiore Hospital– consult-liaison psychiatry fellowship 1983-84
Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research – Certificate in Psychoanalysis – 1984-1990
Credentials/Board Certification
Board Certification, Psychiatry
Honors/Awards
Reader’s Digest International Fellowship for Medical Work in Developing Countries, 1-78-3/78, Ivory Coast, West Africa
Publications
- “When the Analyst Becomes Pregnant – Twice”. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Vol 13 No. 2, 226-239.
- “Mother’s Milk, A Psychoanalyst Looks at Breastfeeding”, The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 1996, Vol 51, 475-490.
- “Reflections of an Orthodox Psychiatrist”, Sh’ma: A Journal of Jewish Responsibility, 2/200l.
- “Psychotherapy and Teshuva (Repentance): Parallel and Overlapping Systems for Change”, co-authored with Rachel Yehuda, The Torah U-Maddah Journal, Volume Eleven, 2002-03.
- Yehuda, R., Friedman, M., Rosenbaum, T., Labinsky, E., Schmeidler, J. History of Sexual Abuse in Married Observant Jewish Women. American J Psychiatry 2007; 164:1700-1706.
- Friedman, M. Jewish Perspectives on Shame and Illness. The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine. 2004 yjhm.yale.edu/archives/spirit2004/shame/mfriedman.htm
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