Robert Michels (born 1936) is Professor of Medicine and of Psychiatry at
Weill Cornell Medical College
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and a training and supervising
psychoanalyst at the
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A native of
Chicago
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, Michels graduated from the
University of Chicago
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and
Northwestern University's medical school.
[Cooper, Arnold M]
Contemporary psychoanalysis in America: leading analysts present their work
p. 401 (bio section on Michels) (2006) After a residency and psychoanalytic training at Columbia, Michels completed a fellowship at the
National Institutes of Health
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. Michels was named chairman of Cornell's psychiatry department in 1974. He served seventeen years as chairman at the
Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic
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and served as
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of Cornell's medical school from 1991 to 1996.
[(19 April 1991)]
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'' Michels has been a Fellow of
The Hastings Center
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since 1970.
He is the author of many articles and has co-edited multiple texts. His best known work is ''The Psychiatric Interview in Clinical Practice'', which was written with Roger MacKinnon and published in 1971. A second edition was published in 2006.
References
External links
Robert Michels, M.D. - Cornell*
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Cornell University faculty
University of Chicago alumni
Feinberg School of Medicine alumni
Living people
Hastings Center Fellows
American psychiatrists
American psychoanalysts
1936 births