Dr. Edward R Shapiro M.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
25 Main Street Austin Riggs Center Stockbridge MA, 01262About
Dr. Edward Shapiro is a psychiatrist practicing in Stockbridge, MA. Dr. Shapiro is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Shapiro diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Shapiro may treat patients through a variety of methods including medications, psychotherapy or talk therapy, psychosocial interventions and more, depending on each individual case. Different medications that a psychiatrist might prescribe include antidepressants, antipsychotic mediations, mood stabilizers, stimulants, sedatives and hypnotics. Dr. Shapiro treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1968
Harvard Medical School 1968
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Responses to "The subjective experience of the self in the large group: two models for study".
- "My Face Is My Fate": biological and psychosocial approaches to the treatment of a woman with obsessions and delusions.
- Joining a group's task: the discovery of hope and respect.
- Strategic choices in the psychotherapy of a "fragile" patient.
- A view from Riggs: treatment resistance and patient authority-XII. Examined living: a psychodynamic treatment system.
- Psychoanalytic institutions and treatment resistance: commentary on Kafka.
- Management vs. interpretation: teaching residents to listen.
- Disguised Countertransference in Institutions.
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