Author: artsmuklermd

Art Smukler, MD was born and raised in Philadelphia, went to college and medical school in Pennsylvania, and completed his psychiatric training at UCLA. He is a board-certified psychiatrist, specializing in the treatment of adults with a subspecialty in adolescents. As a member of the UCLA faculty, he ran an award-winning psychotherapy conference for psychiatric residents and received the coveted “Golden Ear” award. He has published in psychiatric journals, and won the award for excellence in creative writing at The Santa Barbara Writers Conference. Now a full-time author, he applies his deep understanding of the human psyche to the motivations of his fictional characters.

Listening with the Third Ear, by Art Smukler, MD, psychiatrist

by artsmuklermd, posted in depression, MY NOVELS, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, Self Examination, Writing

Listening with the Third Ear is a tool conceived by Theodore Reich. It’s a way of listening to a patient while letting your mind wander, wherever it wants to go.

Thanks for watching and reading Inside the Mind of a Psychiatrist: what my patients taught me.

Art

#psychotherapy, #psychoanalysis, #psychiatrist, #therapist

Fate and California Dreamin’ by Art Smukler, MD, psychiatrist

by artsmuklermd, posted in MY NOVELS, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, Self Examination, Writing

Fate and California Dreamin’. It’s so interesting how fate plays a roll in our decisions. Any examples that you’ve experienced? Thanks for watching. Art

#psychiatry, #psychotherapy, #californiadreamin’, #fate