Dr. Melvin L. Selzer M.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
6967 Paseo Laredo La Jolla CA, 92037About
Dr. Melvin Selzer is a psychiatrist practicing in La Jolla, CA. Dr. Selzer is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Selzer diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Selzer 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. Selzer treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Tulane Univ Sch of Med, New Orleans La 1952
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Role of life events in accident causation.
- Desirable versus undesirable life events: their relationship to stress and mental distress.
- A follow-up of alcoholics committed to a state hospital.
- Hostility as a barrier to therapy in alcoholism.
- On involuntary hospitalization of alcoholics: suggestions for an inpatient treatment program.
- The use of doxylamine in schizophrenia: pitfalls in the evaluation of a new drug.
- Change of supervisor and psychotherapeutic progress.
- Personality versus intoxication as critical factor in accidents caused by alcoholic drivers.
- Automobile accidents, suicide and unconscious motivation.
- Alcoholism: diagnostic considerations.
- ALCOHOLISM: DIAGNOSIS AND LONG RANGE TREATMENT.
- STRESS ULCERS AND RENAL DISEASE FOLLOWING ELECTRIC CONVULSIVE THERAPY.
- ALCOHOLISM, MENTAL ILLNESS AND THE "DRUNK DRIVER".
- UNIQUE ASPECTS OF UNIVERSITY HEALTH SERVICE PSYCHIATRY.
- The happy college student myth: psychiatric implications.
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