Eric Martin Plakun MD, DLFAPA, FACPsych

Eric Plakun, MD is Associate Medical Director of the Austen Riggs Center and former Harvard Medical School clinical faculty. Editor of 2 books and author of fifty papers, he has made over a hundred scientific presentations. He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a member of the APA Assembly, past chair of the APA Committee on Psychotherapy by Psychiatrists, and leads its Psychotherapy Caucus. He was honored as the Outstanding Psychiatrist in Clinical Psychiatry by the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society, is a leader in organized psychiatry and an advocate for the value of psychotherapy and psychosocial treatment.