About Norman Doidge, M.D. (continued)

In 1993 he presented his research at the White House in Washington, D.C., and is credited with helping preserve these treatments as part of the Canadian and Australian health care systems.

Dr. Doidge served as Head of the Psychotherapy Centre and the Assessment Clinic at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, and taught in the departments of Philosophy, Political Science, Law and Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He has published on trauma, problems in love, psychiatric diagnoses and intensive psychotherapies, and is the author of standards and guidelines for the practice of intensive psychotherapy that are widely used in Canada. In 1993 he presented his research at the White House in Washington, D.C., and is credited with helping preserve these treatments as part of the Canadian and Australian health care systems. He is a Training Analyst (a trainer of psychoanalysts) in the Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis. Dr. Doidge has won a number of scientific awards, including the U.S. National Psychiatric Endowment Award in Psychiatry; the American Psychoanalytic Association’s CORST Prize in Psychoanalysis and Culture; the Canadian Psychoanalytic Association’s M. Prados Prize; and election to the American College of Psychoanalysts for “many outstanding achievements in psychiatry and psychoanalysis... and national leadership in psychiatry.”

He has written over 170 articles, and his popular writing has appeared in Reader’s Digest, as the back-page essay for Time Magazine, in Saturday Night, Maclean's, UPI, Gravitas, Books in Canada, The Medical Post, The Melbourne Age, The Weekly Standard and the Chicago Sun-Times, and is frequently anthologized in college texts on how to write. Dr. Doidge has given keynote lectures in North America, Europe and Australia.