Dr. David Mintz is a board certified staff psychiatrist and Director of Psychiatric Education at the Austen Riggs Center. He also directs the Elective in Psychodynamic Psychiatry for medical students and visiting residents. He has published and presented on a wide variety of topics, with a current focus on psychodynamic aspects of medical education, clinical care of psychiatric patients with treatment refractory conditions, and psychological aspects of taking and prescribing medications.

Voted by the faculty as the outstanding member of his class, Dr. Mintz is a graduate of the University of Miami School of Medicine, where he was inducted into the National Medical Honor Society. He completed his residency through the Cambridge Hospital/Austen Riggs Center Combined Residency Program and the Psychotherapy Fellowship at the Austen Riggs Center. He is a Psychoanalytic Fellow of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry, where he is also on the Education Committee. He is on the Medical Student Education Committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association.