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David Mintz, MD
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.
Free Online CE/CME Courses Led By David L. Mintz, MD
- Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology - David Mintz, MD (Recorded)
- Meaning-Based Harm from Medications: Clinical and Ethical Implications - David Mintz, MD (Recorded self study)
- Thinking About Prescribing: Psychodynamically-Informed, Patient-Centered Approaches to Pharmacotherapy (1 of 5) - David L. Mintz, MD (Recorded)
- The Science of the Art of Psychopharmacology: An Introduction to the (Other) Evidence Base (2 of 5) - David L. Mintz, MD (Recorded)
- Psychodynamics of Pharmacologic Treatment-Resistance (3 of 5) - David L. Mintz, MD (Recorded)
- Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology: Caring for the Treatment-Resistant Patient (4 of 5) - David L. Mintz, MD (Recorded)
- Integrating Care: Combining Medications and Psychotherapy (5 of 5) - David L. Mintz, MD (Recorded self study)
- 2023 Fall Conference Part 3: Psychodynamic Technique in Pharmacotherapy (Recorded)
- Performance Improvement CME
Featured Resources
News
Psychotherapy First: Reflections on Florida's New Guidance for Children's Mental Health Care
August 24, 2026
Dr. David Mintz reflects on Florida's new guidance urging psychotherapy and thorough evaluation before medication for children with mild symptoms and draws on his own research to explain why that approach matters for children's long-term development.
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Understanding Treatment Resistance in Pharmacotherapy: A Psychodynamic Approach
April 23, 2025
Understanding and addressing treatment resistance requires a framework that goes beyond prescribing medications. The Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology model developed at Riggs offers a structured approach.
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