Dr. Robert Gordon: Psychotherapy Part 1

<div class="gs"> <div class=""> <div id=":2sv" class="ii gt"> <div id=":2su" class="a3s aiL"> <div dir="ltr"> <div class="gmail_default"> <p><span style= "font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dr. Robert <span class="il">Gordon</span> is the Director of Intern Training and Associate Director of Postdoctoral Fellow Training at Rusk Rehabilitation Institute and Clinical Associate Professor at New York University Grossman School of Medicine. He has been the Director of Intern Training since 1995 and has trained over 270 psychology interns. He has specialties in the areas of neuropsychological and forensic testing and psychotherapy with children and adults with physical and learning disabilities and chronic illness. He has published in the areas of existential-humanistic and relational therapeutic approaches during COVID-19 with patients with preexisting conditions, ethics, supervision, relational psychoanalysis, dream interpretation, pain management, and the use of projective testing in neuropsychology. He received his doctorate from the Ferkauf Graduate School of </span><span style= "font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Psychology, Yeshiva University in Child Clinical/School Psychology in 1985 and a Certificate in </span>Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy from Adelphi University in 1999. </p> </div> </div> <div class="adL"> <div class="gmail_default"><span style= "font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is a two part series. In <strong>Part 1</strong>, he discusses: his role at Rusk and the services his department provides and with what populations; the extent to which telehealth was used prior to the COVID-19 outbreak and how this usage compares to the aftermath of the appearance of this disease; what motivated him to write a recent article entitled “Existential-Humanistic and Relational Approaches During COVID with Patients with Preexisting Medical Conditions;” his description of the meaning of the term Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapy; who some major writers are in th