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Matthew Steinfeld, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry
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Associate Director of Clinical Training, Substance Abuse Treatment Unit of the Connecticut Mental Health Center

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Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Associate Director of Clinical Training, Substance Abuse Treatment Unit of the Connecticut Mental Health Center

Biography

Dr. Matthew Steinfeld is a nationally recognized psychoanalytic educator and clinician, whose expertise centers on the provision of psychoanalytic psychotherapy in community-based clinical contexts. A past recipient of an APsaA Fellowship and the Psychoanalytic & Psychodynamic Teachers' Academy Fellowship in the American Psychoanalytic Association, he serves on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, the board of the The Sándor Ferenczi Center at The New School for Social Research, and is an incoming board member for the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (Division 39) in the American Psychological Association. Dr. Steinfeld’s scholarly, clinical, and research interests center on: clinical theory and technique in psychodynamic psychotherapy; the ways that social, political, and economic forces, intersecting with unconscious processes, affect the provision of community-based psychotherapeutic care; and the acoustic dimensions of psychotherapy. He serves as an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and the Associate Director of Clinical Training at the Connecticut Mental Health Center’s Substance Abuse Treatment Unit.

Appointments

  • Psychiatry

    Associate Professor on Term
    Primary

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Education & Training

Postdoctoral Associate
Yale School of Medicine (2012)
PhD
New School for Social Research (2011)
Predoctoral Fellow
Yale School of Medicine (2011)
MA
New School for Social Research (2007)
BA
Eugene Lang College, New School University (2003)
Psychoanalytic Candidate
New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis

Research

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Matthew Steinfeld's published research.

Publications

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2023

2022

2021

2018

2017

  • PDM-2
    Lingiardi V, & McWilliams N. (Eds.) Malone J, & Malberg N, (Section Eds.) Brotnow L, Colli A, Hamlett N, Lympinaki E, Rosenberg L, Steinfeld M, Stojanac D (Section consultants in alphabetical order) (2017) Emerging personality patterns and syndromes in adolescence, PA Axis. The Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, Second Edition (PDM-2). Guilford Press, 323-385.
    Peer-Reviewed Original Research

2016

  • Substance abuse systems and services
    LaPaglia D, Kiluk B, Fucito L, Ikomi J, Steinfeld M, Muvvala S. (2016) Substance abuse systems and services. In Jacobs, S. & Steiner, J. (Eds) The Yale Textbook of Public Psychiatry. Oxford University Press, 81-95.
    Peer-Reviewed Original Research

2015

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

  • honor

    Medical Education Fellowship

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    Benjamin Wolstein Fellowship

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    Distinguished Faculty Award for Outstanding Contributions as a Teacher

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    Early Career Professional Scholar

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    Teaching Scholar

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