With over 40 years of clinical experience, Dr. Galatzer-Levy sees children, adolescents and adults in his primary therapy practice. In his active forensic practice he is a highly respected expert and consultant-providing expertise in the interface between psychiatry and the law. He has worked in a wide range of legal cases-civil, criminal and divorce.
Dr. Galatzer-Levy is a widely sought-after teacher and public speaker in his professional roles as a clinician and as an expert witness. He serves as a consultant to mental health and legal professionals, as well as to schools and other institutions. Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, University of Chicago. Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis: training, supervising, and child and adolescent supervising analyst.
Dr. Galatzer-Levy is a widely sought-after teacher and public speaker in his professional roles as a clinician and as an expert witness. He serves as a consultant to mental health and legal professionals, as well as to schools and other institutions. Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, University of Chicago. Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis: training, supervising, and child and adolescent supervising analyst.
Services
Dr. Galatzer-Levy provides expert opinions and forensic consultation to courts and attorneys.
He has extensive experience providing expert testimony and performing evaluations for the courts and administrative bodies such as licensing commissions and ethics committees.
He coedited The Scientific Basis of Child Custody Decisions, now in its second edition a national recognized text on custody evaluations.
He has performed evaluations and testified in multiple areas including criminal responsibility, criminal confessions, child custody, both civil and criminal competency, psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic malpractice and ethics, and product liability.
He has extensive experience providing expert testimony and performing evaluations for the courts and administrative bodies such as licensing commissions and ethics committees.
He coedited The Scientific Basis of Child Custody Decisions, now in its second edition a national recognized text on custody evaluations.
He has performed evaluations and testified in multiple areas including criminal responsibility, criminal confessions, child custody, both civil and criminal competency, psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic malpractice and ethics, and product liability.
Dr. Galatzer-Levy is available to consult with mental health professionals either on a single incident or ongoing basis about clinical problems, ethical issues, practice management and development, and for educational purposes.
Over the years, groups of mental health professionals have organized themselves into "consultation groups" who have come to Dr. Galatzer-Levy together for group consultation.
Dr. Galatzer-Levy is also available to attorneys seeking psychological insight, both in the case-related issues and psychological dimensions of management.
Over the years, groups of mental health professionals have organized themselves into "consultation groups" who have come to Dr. Galatzer-Levy together for group consultation.
Dr. Galatzer-Levy is also available to attorneys seeking psychological insight, both in the case-related issues and psychological dimensions of management.
This is an ongoing seminar, in which we are systematically conducting a close reading of Sigmund Freud's collective works.
This year will focus on the period 1905 through 1910.
The seminar, which meets on the first Wednesday evening of each month at the Institute for Psychoanalysis, is open to anyone interested in the careful exploration of Freud's writings.
Please contact Dr. Galatzer-Levy for additional information.
Seminar on Psychoanalysis and the Law.
This monthly seminar designed for mental health professionals, attorneys, students in those fields, and other professionals with an interest in the topic explores issues that rise on the interface of psychoanalysis and the law.
This year will focus on the period 1905 through 1910.
The seminar, which meets on the first Wednesday evening of each month at the Institute for Psychoanalysis, is open to anyone interested in the careful exploration of Freud's writings.
Please contact Dr. Galatzer-Levy for additional information.
Seminar on Psychoanalysis and the Law.
This monthly seminar designed for mental health professionals, attorneys, students in those fields, and other professionals with an interest in the topic explores issues that rise on the interface of psychoanalysis and the law.
Nonlinear concepts from chaos theory, complexity studies, and fractal geometry have transformed the way we think about the mind.
Nonlinear Psychoanalysis shows how nonlinear dynamics can be integrated with psychoanalytic thinking to shed new light on psychological development, therapeutic processes, and fundamental psychoanalytic concepts.
Galatzer-Levy, R. and Cohler, B. (1993) The Essential Other: A Developmental Psychology of the Self.
Galatzer-Levy, R. (2008) A Primer of Psychoanalysis for Alan Turing. in D. Dietrich et al. (eds) Simulating the Mind: A Technical Neuropsychoanalytic Approach.
Nonlinear Psychoanalysis shows how nonlinear dynamics can be integrated with psychoanalytic thinking to shed new light on psychological development, therapeutic processes, and fundamental psychoanalytic concepts.
Galatzer-Levy, R. and Cohler, B. (1993) The Essential Other: A Developmental Psychology of the Self.
Galatzer-Levy, R. (2008) A Primer of Psychoanalysis for Alan Turing. in D. Dietrich et al. (eds) Simulating the Mind: A Technical Neuropsychoanalytic Approach.
Galatzer-Levy, R. (in press) Women and Children Last: Comments of the History of Child Aanalysis.
The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child.
Galatzer-Levy, R. (in press) The Edge of Chaos: A Nonlinear View of Psychoanalytic Technique.
International Journal of Psychoanalysis.
Galatzer-Levy, R. (in press) Commentary on "Mourning the Body as Bedrock: Developmental Considerations in Treating Analytically Trannsexual Patients."
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.
Galatzer-Levy, R. (2013) The Death of the Analyst, the Death of the Analytic Community, and Bad Conduct.
The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child.
Galatzer-Levy, R. (in press) The Edge of Chaos: A Nonlinear View of Psychoanalytic Technique.
International Journal of Psychoanalysis.
Galatzer-Levy, R. (in press) Commentary on "Mourning the Body as Bedrock: Developmental Considerations in Treating Analytically Trannsexual Patients."
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.
Galatzer-Levy, R. (2013) The Death of the Analyst, the Death of the Analytic Community, and Bad Conduct.
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