Dr. Jennifer Ianthe Downey MD
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
108 E 91st Street # 1a New York NY, 10128About
Dr. Jennifer Downey is a psychiatrist practicing in New York, NY. Dr. Downey is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Downey diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Downey may treat patients through a variety of methods including medications, psychotherapy or talk therapy, psychosocial interventions and more, depending on each individual case. Different medications that a psychiatrist might prescribe include antidepressants, antipsychotic mediations, mood stabilizers, stimulants, sedatives and hypnotics. Dr. Downey treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine 1978
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Internalized homophobia and gender-valued self-esteem in the psychoanalysis of gay patients.
- Psychoanalysis and sexual fantasies.
- The psychobiology of late childhood: significance for psychoanalytic developmental theory and clinical practice.
- On: Homosexuality: coming out of the confusion.
- Sexual psychodynamics I: the origins of male aggression.
- Sexual differentiation of behavior: the foundation of a developmental model of psychosexuality.
- What women want: psychodynamics of women's sexuality in 2008.
- Sex and psychodynamic psychiatry: selected topics. Editors' introduction.
- Psychotherapy of bisexual men.
- Driven sexual behavior in bipolar spectrum patients: psychodynamic issues.
- Editorial: the biopsychosocial model.
- Toward a definition of "hypersexuality" in children and adolescents.
- Psychodynamic psychiatry and psychoanalysis.
- Is increased sexual behavior a symptom of bipolar disorder in children and adolescents?
- Sexual differentiation of childhood play: a contemporary psychoanalytic perspective.
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