Lewis A. Kirshner

Background

Kirshner, Lewis A. was born on April 16, 1940 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Education

Bachelor, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1961; Doctor of Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, 1965.

Career

Resident in psychiatry, Albert Einstein College Medicine, Bronx, New York, 1969-1973; resident in adolescent psychiatry, Harvard University Health Svc., 1973; dir inpatient psychiatry, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1974-1979; medical director, Metropolitan Beaverbrook Mental Health Center, Watertown, Massachusetts, 1979-1980; chief mental health, Harvard Cmty. Health Plan, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 1980-1989; private practice, specializing in psychoanalysis, since 1982; academic psychiatrist, VA Medical Center/Harvard South Shore Program, Brockton, Massachusetts, since 1993; psychiatrist, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, since 1993. Training and supervising analyst Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, since 1993.

Mem.faculty Massachusetts Institute Psychoanalysis, since 1994. Associate clinical professor Harvard medical School, since 1997. Visiting professor U. Lyon, France, 1998-1999.

Achievements

• Lewis A. Kirshner has been listed as a noteworthy Psychiatrist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Major United States Air Force, 1969-1971. Fellow American Psychiatric Association. Member American Psychoanalytic Assn, Boston Psychoanalytic Society, Society for Psychotherapy Research, Recontres de Ville Cerf (director d'enseignement since 1998), Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha.

Connections

Son of Jacob J. and Estelle (Varbalow) K. Divorced; children: Adam J., Benjamin R.

Father:

Jacob J. Kirshner

Mother:

Estelle (Varbalow) Kirshner

child:

Benjamin R. Kirshner

child:

Adam J. Kirshner