David Mintz, MD

Online IOP for College Students and Emerging Adults in MA & VT

Director of Psychiatric Education/Associate Director of Training

David Mintz, MD

Director of Psychiatric Education/Associate Director of Training

Education

MD from University of Miami School of Medicine
Residency through the Cambridge Hospital/Austen Riggs Center Combined Residency Program
Fellowship in psychoanalytic studies at the Austen Riggs Center

David Mintz, MD joined the Austen Riggs Center in 1996. He is a staff psychiatrist, the Director of Psychiatric Education and Associate Director of Training, and director of the Elective in Psychodynamic Psychiatry at the Austen Riggs Center.

A passionate educator and advocate for the importance of patient-centered and psychodynamically-informed perspectives in psychiatry, he has given hundreds of national presentations and has authored of dozens of publications addressing issues of psychodynamic education and psychodynamically-informed approaches to pharmacologic treatment resistance, including Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology: Caring for the Treatment-Resistant Patient (2022, American Psychiatric Association Publishing).

Professional Affiliations/Organizational Memberships

American Psychiatric Association, former Chair of the Psychotherapy Caucus
American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry, Psychoanalytic Fellow and former elected Trustee
American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training, member of the Psychotherapy Committee
American Psychoanalytic Association, member of the Medical Student Education Committee
Massachusetts Psychiatric Society, member of the Psychotherapy Committee
Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, member of the Psychopharmacology Committee

Certifications/Appointments

Psychotherapy Section Editor for Psychiatric News
Associate Editor of Psychodynamic Psychiatry
Editorial Board Member of The American Journal of Psychotherapy

Awards/Recognitions

Teichner Scholar of the AAPDPP/AADPRT in both 2022 and 2023
2020 Journal Prize awarded by Psychodynamic Psychiatry for the most outstanding article published in 2018-2019, for the paper “Recovery from Childhood Psychiatric Treatment: Addressing the Meaning of Medications”
APA Masterclass on “The Art of Psychopharmacology” selected as APA Course of the Month in both 2023 and 2024
Massachusetts Psychiatric Society 2024 Outstanding Psychiatrist Award for Education
Edith Sabshin Teaching Award of the American Psychoanalytic Association, January 2026

Research Interests

Psychological aspects of taking and prescribing medications, psychodynamic aspects of medical education, professionalism, and clinical care of psychiatric patients with treatment-refractory conditions.

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