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Michael D. Robbins

American author, psychoanalyst, and former professor of Psychiatry

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Robbins graduated from Amherst College Summa Cum Laude in 1955. He received his medical degree at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. Robbins completed his residency at Massachusetts Mental Health Center and an internship at the University of Rochester Medical School. Additionally, he graduated from and is a member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.

Robbins joined Harvard Medical School where he became an assistant professor and later a clinical professor of Psychiatry. He was attending psychiatrist at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts where he was in charge of wards and then became director of the admissions and brief treatment service. He later became clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco and was on the faculty of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California.

He is a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association, and the American Psychoanalytic Association. He was on the board of directors of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and the International Society for the Psychological Treatment of Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses (ISPS).

In 1983, Robbins received the Felix and Helene Deutsch Prize presented by the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute for his paper, "Toward a New Mind Model for the Primitive Personalities."

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