THE GOLDWATER RULE: Clinical Diagnosis Outside the Consulting Room

Dr. Richard A. Friedman is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and Director of the Psychopharmacology Clinic in the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Friedman has a particular interest and expertise in the psychopharmacology and neurobiology of mood disorders, and in particular, treatment-resistant depression.

At Cornell, he is actively involved in teaching and training psychiatric residents and medical students. He is course director for the PG-2 Fundamentals of Biological Psychiatry and Psychopharmacology and director of the PG-3 Psychopharmacology Continuous Case Conference.

Dr. Friedman writes for several medical journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association, on psychiatric topics. He is also a contributing opinion writer at the New York Times and a regular contributor to the science section of the paper where he writes on mental health, addiction, human behavior, and neuroscience.

Thursday, February 16, 2017, 8:00 pm

Presenter: Dr. Richard A. Friedman

Please join us for what promises to be a truly exceptional evening when Dr. Richard A. Friedman, who has written extensively on the Goldwater Rule, will informally discuss with the audience the potential consequences of hypothetical diagnoses of political figures.

No CME or CE credits offered

$25 – General Admission
$20 – NYPSI members
$15 – All Students with valid ID

New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute
247 East 82nd Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues)
The Marianne & Nicholas Young Auditorium