Dr. Lance M Dodes M.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
1163 Walnut St Newton Highlands MA, 02461About
Dr. Lance Dodes is a psychiatrist practicing in Newton Highlands, MA. Dr. Dodes is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Dodes diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Dodes 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. Dodes treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1970
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN- Addiction Psychiatry
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- On: What can we learn from psychoanalysis and prospective studies about chemically dependent patients?
- Lance Dodes on Jeffrey Roth.
- Addiction, helplessness, and narcissistic rage.
- The psychology of combining dynamic psychotherapy and alcoholics anonymous.
- The antiaggressive effects of lithium in man.
- Abstinence from alcohol in long-term individual psychotherapy with alcoholics.
- Recent developments in alcoholism:psychodynamic approaches.
- Compulsion and addiction.
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