Steven A. Frankel, M.D. has practiced and taught in the San Francisco Bay Area for over thirty-five years. He is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in general psychiatry as well as child and adolescent psychiatry, and has authored many professional articles and four books. His collaborative model of psychotherapy is elaborated in Evidence from Within: A Paradigm for Clinical Practice (2008, Rowman and Littlefield), Making Psychotherapy Work: Collaborating Effectively with your Patient (2007, The Psychosocial Press [An imprint of International Universities Press]), Hidden Faults: Recognizing and Resolving Therapeutic Disjunctions (2000, The Psychosocial Press), and Intricate Engagements: The Collaborative Basis of Therapeutic Change (1995, Jason Aronson; 2004, Rowman and Littlefield). He teaches and consults widely, drawing on his interest in the determinants of success or failure in psychotherapy and the research he has done in this area and in child development.

A graduate of Yale Medical School, he was a National Institute of Mental Health research fellow in pharmacology at Stanford University Medical School. He then trained in psychiatry at the University of California Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center in San Francisco, where he later joined the academic faculty. Dr. Frankel then received psychoanalytic training at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, where he is a member of its faculty. Additionally, he is a training and supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California in San Francisco, and at the Newport Psychoanalytic Institute in Southern California. He is also an associate clinical professor at the University of California Medical School in San Francisco. He has been designated a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, has attained certification by the American Psychoanalytic Association, and has been voted by his peers to Best Doctors in America ® every year since 1987.

To learn more about Dr. Frankel’s work, please visit the Books & Articles page or the Center for Collaborative Psychology and Psychiatry website.