Author
Richard B. Makover graduated from Yale University and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. After a year as a medical intern, he completed his psychiatric training as Chief Resident and then served two years as a psychiatrist in the United States Navy and began a private psychiatric practice.
He was appointed to academic posts at Cornell University Medical College and at New York Medical College. He served as President of a child guidance clinic and Chairman of a program review committee for Connecticut’s Department of Mental Retardation. His administrative experience includes Chairmanship of a hospital psychiatry department, Chief of a neuropsychiatry service, and Director of Psychiatry at a large Health Maintenance Organization.
He has been a consultant in geriatric psychiatry and worked extensively in the field of sleep medicine. After several decades of clinical experience in psychiatric practice, he proposed a new system of treatment planning, now in its third edition as Treatment Planning for Psychotherapists. In 2017 he published a textbook, Basics of Psychotherapy. He is currently a Lecturer at the Yale School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, Janet.
