Eric R Marcus, MD
Overview
He is a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. He is a past president of the New York County district branch of the American Psychiatric Association and a past president of the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine.
His teaching awards include the Columbia University President's Teaching Award, the Roeske Teaching Award of the American Psychiatric Association, the Edith Sabshin Teaching Awards of the American Psychoanalytic Association, the regional teaching award of the Association for Academic Psychiatry, and several College of Physicians and Surgeons teaching awards, including Commencement Speaker.
His areas of research involve symbolic alterations of reality in psychotic and near psychotic phenomena and in psychodynamic social science research.
He studies their experiences, structures, uses, psychodynamics, and speculative neuro-physiology. Two of his books applying these ideas are Psychosis and Near Psychosis: Ego function, Symbol structure, Treatment, and Modern Ego Psychology and Human Sexual Experience, The Meaning of Treatment. His social science research used medical students' dreams about medical school to study their development of empathy and professional responsibility.
He also studies psychoanalytic theories of the mind and has written about modern ego psychology as a unifying psychoanalytic theory. His forthcoming book is Modern Ego Psychology: A Contemporary View
Academic Appointments
- Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Hospital Affiliations
- NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Gender
- Male
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Credentials & Experience
Education & Training
- University of Wisconsin Medical School
- Residency: New York State Psychiatric Institute
Board Certifications
- Psychiatry
Research
1) symbolic alterations of reality in psychosis, dreams, art and culture 2) the emotional development process of becoming a physician as revealed in medical student dreams about medical school 3) neuro-mental experience of artistic aesthetics 4) development of modern ego psychology theory 5) the differential diagnosis and combined medication and psychotherapy of psychotic and near psychotic conditions, with and without co-morbid personality disorders 6) curricular change to catalyze emotional growth and development of the capacity for medical empathy, the structure and use of symbolic alterations of reality
Selected Publications
- Eric R Marcus: Psychosis and Near Psychosis: Ego Function, Symbol Structure, Treatment. revised second edition, International Universities Press, Madison, CT, USA, 2003
- Eric R Marcus: Medical student dreams about medical school--The unconscious developmental process of becoming a physician. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 2003;84:367-386
- Eric R Marcus: Medical humanism and the developmental professionalization process of medical education. Academic Medicine 1999;74:1211-1215
- Eric R. Marcus, MD: Modern Ego Psychology. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 1999;47(3):543-871
For a complete list of publications, please visit PubMed.gov