Matthew Steinfeld, PhD has been named an Early Career Professional Scholar by the Division of Psychoanalysis (Division 39) of the American Psychological Association. Steinfeld is an instructor in psychiatry affiliated with the department's Psychology Section, and is the associate director of clinical training at the Substance Abuse Treatment Unit (SATU) of the Connecticut Mental Health Center (CMHC).
Division 39 is one of the largest associations of psychoanalytic professionals and scholars in the world. The Division's Scholars Program is a new initiative designed to foster intellectual curiosity and professional development relevant to psychoanalytic approaches to clinical work, theory, and research. The aim of the program is to promote learning about psychoanalysis, and to facilitate open dialogue and an exchange of ideas about the future of psychoanalytic thinking, research, and practice.
As a recipient of this award, Steinfeld will participate in a series of events for early career professionals at the Division's Spring Meeting in New York City and will be matched with a senior psychoanalytic mentor in the Division 39 community.
Steinfeld is an active educator in the department. In the current academic year, he led a module on psychodynamic psychotherapy for predoctoral psychology fellows in the Yale Doctoral Internship in Clinical and Community Psychology; co-coordinated a didactic seminar on psychotherapy for substance abuse for the Yale Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship; is running a weekly clinical case seminar for trainees at SATU/CMHC; and, earlier in January, was one of the instructors in "The Healer’s Art" course offered to Yale medical students.
Steinfeld received his PhD in clinical psychology from the New School for Social Research in 2011 and completed pre and postdoctoral fellowships at Yale. He joined the Yale Department of Psychiatry faculty in July 2012.