Adam Critchfield MD

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Psychoanalysis, psychodynamic psychotherapy for anxiety, depression, panic, trauma, personality disorders; psychosomatic medicine (psychotherapy and psychopharmacology in the context of an acute or chronic medical illness), cognitive problems, illness anxiety, problems in living including difficulties fulfulling one's potential in work and personal life.

PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHY

I am a double board-certified, Columbia trained and affiliated psychiatrist in New York City specializing in consultations and comprehensive treatments including in-depth psychodynamic psychotherapy and, when appropriate, medication management.

For several years I have worked as a teaching attending psychiatrist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry on the Columbia University Medical Center Consultation-Liaison Service. I provide care for problems at the interface of medical and psychiatric illness and have extensive experience providing consultation services to general medicine, OB-GYN (pre- and post-partum psychiatric care), neurology, physical rehabilitation, and intensive care.

I have supervised and taught trainees in psychiatry, neurology, and family medicine in the treatment of psychiatric disorders. I use my advanced training in psychoanalysis and transference-focused psychotherapy to provide optimal care for psychological difficulties pertaining to personality development, conflicts and inhibitions that get in the way of fulfilling one's full potential in life. In my private practice I treat a wide range of conditions with the utmost attention paid to the individuality of every person coming to treatment.

Psychoanalysis provides a special kind of therapeutic relationship that allows one to find greater degrees of freedom in thought and feeling, discover the complex developmental roots of one's personality and expand the ability to reflect on the fullness and complexity of one's inner life.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

M.D.: Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 2011

Internship: Columbia University Medical Center/New York Presbyterian Hospital, 2012

Psychiatry Residency: Columbia University Medical Center/NYPH/NYSPI, 2012-2015

Fellowship in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry/Psychosomatic Medicine: Columbia University Medical Center, 2015-2016.

As a C-L Psychiatry fellow, I led the implementation of a collaborative care program in a family medicine clinic that provides psychiatric consultation and treatment in the primary care setting to an underserved population.

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified in Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 2015

Certified in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry/Psychosomatic Medicine by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 2016

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS

Critchfield, A., Garza C. and Muskin, P. (forthcoming) "Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy." Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry.

Ader, J. Otten, M., Critchfield, A. & Prager, K. (forthcoming, 2022). A Standardized Approach to Treatment Over Objection in Patients Lacking Decision-Making Capacity Secondary to Neurological Disease." Neurology Clinical Practice.

Parker, C., Slan, A., Shalev, D., & Critchfield, A. (2021). Abrupt late-onset psychosis as a presentation of coronavirus 2019 disease (COVID-19): a longitudinal case report. Journal of psychiatric practice, 27(2), 131.

Critchfield, A., Garza C., Muskin P. "Fight, Flight, or Freud: Applied Psychodynamics in Complex Clinical Systems", presentation at the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (ACLP) Annual Meeting, 2019

Contributor. Study Guide to Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. Edited by Muskin PR et al. American Psychiatric Association Publishing, 2019.

Critchfield, A. “Using Principles of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy to Treat Patients with Personality Disorders in the Medical Setting” presentation at the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (ACLP) Annual Meeting, 2018

Contributor. The American Psychiatric Publishing Study Guide to Geriatric Psychiatry. Chapter 18: Personality Disorders. Edited by Muskin PR and Dickerman AL. American Psychiatric Publishing, 2017.

Contributor. The American Psychiatric Publishing Study Guide for the Psychiatry Board Examination. Edited by Muskin PR and Dickerman AL. American Psychiatric Association Publishing, 2016.

Shapiro, P. and Critchfield, A. “Cardiovascular Disorders”. Kaplan and Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry 2016.

Critchfield, Adam. “On Writing Illness: How Virginia Woolf Finds a New Language for Illness in The Voyage Out, Mrs Dalloway, and The Waves.” University of Texas at Austin Undergraduate Research Journal. Volume 5, Number 1: 69-77. Spring 2006.

SELECTED HONORS

Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Honor Society, 2010

Daniel Noyes Brown Scholar in Primary Care, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 2007

Burleson Award for Literary Criticism, University of Texas at Austin, "On Writing Illness," published in University of Texas at Austin Undergraduate Research Journal , 2006

Phi Beta Kappa, 2005