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 Dr. Horowitz's award-winning work on self, stress, trauma and mourning has been featured in Time Magazine and The New York Times , as well as on CBS, NBC, and ABC television and the National Public Radio of Canada.
In his distinguished, multi-tiered career—as a research scientist, clinician in private practice, and Professor of Psychiatry at University of California San Francisco —Dr. Horowitz has worked with thousands of troubled individuals facing an array of emotional crises. In the 1970s, he pioneered the diagnosis and treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. In 1997, his research and clinical work on stress led to criteria for a proposed new psychiatric disorder called Complicated Grief. In addition, he has contributed to the understanding of the Histrionic, Compulsive, Hysterical, and Narcissistic personality disorders.
Dr. Horowitz has been speaker at major universities around the world, including All University of Adelaide Lectureship, in honor of its Nobel Prize winner Dr. Florey; the Karolinska Institute of Stockholm; the North Atlantic Treaty Organization meeting on stress at Cambridge University; Harvard; Yale; Vanderbilt; Stanford, and numerous others. He has published 16 books in addition to A Course In Happiness and approximately 300 scientific papers or book chapters on topics ranging from personality styles, states of mind, and how people change
Dr. Horowitz attended medical school at the University of California , San Francisco , interned at the University of Oregon medical school, and received his training in psychiatry at the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute. After completing his psychiatric residency, he served as a Medical Officer in the United States Navy. His psychoanalytic training was at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, and he trained for eight years as a research scientist with the National Institute of Mental Health.
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Mastering Happiness
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