Training/Education

Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, Houston, Texas

Training and Supervising Analyst, 2017

Candidate, Studies in Adult Psychoanalysis, 2003 – 2007 

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

General Psychiatry Residency, 1992 – 1997

 East Tennessee State University – Quillen College of Medicine, Johnson City, TN

Psychiatry Internship, 1991 – 1992

Medical Degree, 1987 – 1991

 Barnard College at Columbia University, New York, New York

Bachelor of Art, English, 1984 – 1987

Professional Experience

Private Practice, Austin, Texas, 1998 – Present

Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, 9/2018 – present

 Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, Houston, Texas

Faculty, July 2008-Present (one year on-leave)

 Jungian Student Texas Seminar Annual Process Group, Austin, Texas

Group Leader, June 2012 – Present

University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Austin, Texas

T-Group Instructor of Psychiatry Residents, 2010 – 2013

 Austin Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology

Education Chair, 2010 – 2011

“Psychoanalytic Salons” Program Designer, 2010

Education Chair-Elect, 2009 – 2010

Texas Medical Board

Resource Group Committee Member, January 2007

Consultant, Spring/Summer 2002

Western State Hospital, Staunton, Virginia

Admission Ward Attending, 1995 – 1996

Publications/Presentations

         National

         Ralph Beaumont, M.D., Lisa Madsen, M.D., Cynthia Playfair, M.D., Glen  

         Gabbard, M.D., Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Comparative Consideration of Method, Technique and Therapeutic Action,                     

         American Psychoanalytic Association Annual Meeting, 6/2017

Abbot Bronstein, Ph.D., Cynthia Playfair, M.D., The Influence of the     

Contemporary British Kleinians on Clinical Psychoanalysis, American

Psychoanalytic Association Annual Meeting, 6/2017

      Regional

Austin Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, “Psychoanalytic Salon Number Three: Transforming Fathers into Usable Objects Through Cinema,” Discussant, The Violet Crown, October and November 2012.

Austin Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, “In Treatment” with ASPP, Discussant, The Alamo Drafthouse, January 2012

Austin Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, “Three Voices Respond to the Work of Bion,” Presentation, October 2009

Texas Medical Board, “Boundaries Between Patient and Physician,” Presentation, August 2007 and November 2009

Texas Medical Board Bulletin, publication, “Just Say No Still Applies: Doctors and Sexual Boundaries,” 2002, Volume 24, Number 1

Affiliations

American Psychiatric Association

American Psychoanalytic Association

Austin Psychiatric Society

Austin/San Antonio Psychoanalytic Society

Austin Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology

Texas Medical Association

Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians

Travis County Medical Society