Dr. Christopher G. Fichtner, MD, CPE, FACPE, LFAPA
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
900 University Ave Riverside CA, 92521About
Dr. Christopher Fichtner is a psychiatrist practicing in Hemet, CA. Dr. Fichtner is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Fichtner diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Fichtner 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. Fichtner treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Univ of Chicago, Pritzker Sch of Med, Chicago Il 1987
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Are sex offenders treatable? A research overview.
- Managing aggressive psychotic patients.
- Psychological assessment, treatment, and outcome with sex offenders.
- Psychiatric leadership and the clinical team: simulated in vivo treatment planning performance as teamwork proxy and learning laboratory.
- Computerized monitoring of valproate and physician responsiveness to laboratory studies as a quality indicator.
- Open trial of nefazodone for combat veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder.
- Values interpretation: a new model for hospital ministry.
- Psychometric Properties of ABPN-Style Oral Examinations Administered Jointly by Two Psychiatry Residency Programs.
- Pleurothotonus and the Pisa syndrome.
- Impact of emergency psychiatry training on residents' decisions to hospitalize patients.
- Neuroleptic depression in schizophrenia.
- Similar or disparate brain patterns? The intra-personal EEG variability of three women with multiple personality disorder.
- Suspicion of somatoform disorder in undiagnosed tabes dorsalis.
- Outcome of schizoaffective disorder at two long-term follow-ups: comparisons with outcome of schizophrenia and affective disorders.
- Brain mapping in a case of multiple personality.
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