Dr. Richard D Chessick MD
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
9400 Drake Ave Evanston IL, 60203Rating
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Dr. Richard Chessick is a psychiatrist practicing in Evanston, IL. Dr. Chessick is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Chessick diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Chessick 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. Chessick treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine 1954
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Empathy in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.
- The phenomenology of Erwin Straus and the epistemology of psychoanalysis.
- Contingency and the unformulated countertransference: a case presentation.
- Insights: emotional illness and creativity: a psychoanalytic perspective.
- What is psychoanalysis?
- Psychoanalysis at the millennium.
- Psychoanalysis at the end of the third millennium.
- Dante's Divine Comedy revisited: what can modern psychoanalysts learn from a medieval "psychoanalysis"?
- The secret life of the psychoanalyst.
- The contemporary failure of nerve and the crisis in psychoanalysis.
- Psychoanalytic peregrinations I: Transference and transference neurosis revisited.
- Psychoanalytic peregrinations. II: Psychoanalysis as science and art.
- Psychoanalytic peregrinations. III: Confusion of tongues, psychoanalyst as translator.
- Psychoanalytic peregrinations IV: what is phenomenology?
- Psychoanalytic peregrination. V: The Zollikon Lectures.
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