Dr. Theodore Shapiro, MD, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in New York, where he is a professor emeritus in psychiatry and pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College and the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic

Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic

At his death in 1927, Payne Whitney bestowed the funds to build and endow the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic on the Upper East Side of Manhattan...

. He is a faculty member of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and a training and supervising psychoanalyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute

New York Psychoanalytic Society

The New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute — founded in 1911 by Dr. Abraham A. Brill — is the oldest psychoanalytic organization in the United States....

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Shapiro is the former director of the division of child psychiatry at Cornell and the former editor of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association is a quarterly peer-reviewed healthcare journal covering all aspects of psychoanalysis and is the official journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. The editor in chief is Steven T. Levy...

. He graduated from Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college founded in 1831 and located in Middletown, Connecticut. According to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Wesleyan is the only Baccalaureate College in the nation that emphasizes undergraduate instruction in the arts and...

 in 1953 and from the Weill Cornell Medical College in 1957.

In 1994, when Shapiro stepped down after ten years service as editor of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, he had published nearly 150 research articles and six books. Cooper writes: "His publications include significant contributions to our understanding of empathy, autism, linguistic structure, symbol formation, and diagnosis, among other topics." Since that time he has continued publishing and is the author or editor of at least nine books.

Books

• Infant Psychiatry: A New Synthesis (with Eveoleen N. Rexford and Louis W. Sander). Yale University Press, 1976. ISBN 9780300018905.
• Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Science (edited collection). International Universities Press, 1977. ISBN 9780823651450.
• Clinical psycholinguistics. Plenum Press, 1979. ISBN 9780306402494.
• The Concept of Structure in Psychoanalysis. International Universities Press, 1989. ISBN 9780823610419.
• Affect: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (with Robert N. Emde). International Universities Press, 1992. ISBN 9780823601165.
• Research in psychoanalysis: process, development, outcome (with Robert N. Emde). International Universities Press, 1995. ISBN 9780823657957.
• Manual of panic-focused psychodynamic psychotherapy (with Barbara Milrod, Arnold Cooper, and Fredric Busch). American Psychiatric Pub., 1996. ISBN 9780880488716.
• Psychodynamic treatment of depression (with Fredric Busch and Marie Rudden). American Psychiatric Pub., 2004. ISBN 9781585620845.
• Psychodynamic Approaches to the Adolescent with Panic Disorder (with Barbara Milrod and Fredric Busch). Krieger Publishing Company, 2004. ISBN 9781575242309.