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

Editorial Board Member of The American Journal of Psychotherapy

Teichner Scholar of the AAPDPP/AADPRT in both 2022 and 2023

 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

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

Leadership

Administrative Staff

Therapy Staff

Erikson Institute Staff

David Mintz, MD

Director of Psychiatric Education/Associate Director of Training

, speaks about the psychosocial and prescriber factors that can outweigh medication effects in this video presentation for Vumedi titled "Psychopharmacology: Harnessing Therapeutic Alliance to Improve Outcomes and Reduce Treatment Resistance."

You can view the presentation here (requires free Vumedi account): 

https://www.vumedi.com/video/psychopharmacology-harnessing-therapeutic-alliance-to-improve-outcomes-and-reduce-treatment-resistan/

Clinical Perspectives

Dr. David Mintz speaks about the psychosocial and prescriber factors that can outweigh medication effects in this video presentation for Vumedi.

Psychopharmacology: Harnessing Therapeutic Alliance to Improve Outcomes and Reduce Treatment Resistance

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