Nathan Mark Kravis, MD

Nathan Kravis MD is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, Associate Director of the DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry at Cornell, Training and Supervising Analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and a former Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He is the author of On the Couch: A Repressed History of the Analytic Couch from Plato to Freud (MIT Press, 2017; Gradiva Award, 2018; German and Turkish editions, 2018; Russian edition, 2019). Other recent publications include “The Analyst’s Hatred of Analysis” (Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 2013), “The Googled and Googling Analyst” (Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 2017), “Charisma” (Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 2021), and “Greenberg and the analyst’s heresy/orthodoxy matrix” (Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 2022). He is the recipient of teaching awards from the psychiatry residents at Cornell and psychoanalytic candidates at Columbia, the George E. Daniels Merit Award of the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine (2011), the George S. Goldman Award of the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center (2015), and the Arnold M. Cooper MD Memorial Award from the Weill Cornell Department of Psychiatry for contributions to psychodynamic psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and historical scholarship (2020). He has been in private practice in New York since 1987.