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Bachaar Arnaout, MD

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Biography

Bachaar Arnaout, MD, is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine and a staff psychiatrist with the VA VISN 1 Clinical Resource Hub. He completed his psychiatry residency at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York, followed by a fellowship in addiction psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, where he later joined the faculty. Dr. Arnaout is board certified in Psychiatry, Addiction Psychiatry, and Brain Injury Medicine.

With a primary focus on addiction psychiatry and medical education, Dr. Arnaout has co-edited two books on addiction psychotherapy grounded in the theoretical framework of motivational interviewing: Handbook of Motivation and Change: A Practical Guide for Clinicians (2010) and Motivational Interviewing in Clinical Practice (2017). He was selected as a 2017–2018 Yale Public Voices Fellow with The OpEd Project, which enabled him to share his expertise and contribute to public discourse.



Last Updated on June 11, 2025.

Appointments

  • Psychiatry

    Associate Clinical Professor
    Primary

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Education & Training

Fellow, Addiction Psychiatry
Yale School of Medicine (2008)
Resident, Psychiatry
St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (2007)
Chief Resident, Psychiatry
St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (2007)
Intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program
William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis & Psychology (2007)
MD
Jagiellonian University (1999)

Research

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Bachaar Arnaout's published research.

Publications

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2018

2017

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