About

Dr. David Abrams, is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist; Director of Training, Harlem Psychoanalytic Family Institute (HFI); Training and Supervising Analyst, (HFI) and China American Psychoanalytic Alliance (CAPA); teaching member of Contemporary Freudian Society; and Fellow of the International Psychoanalytic Association (FIPA). He graduated in adult psychoanalysis from New York University's Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and from the Child and Adolescent Analysis Program founded by Gilbert W. Kliman, MD, at the Center for Preventive Psychiatry in 1988.

He is the author of over 20 professional articles and the co-author of four books.

He is currently completing a psychoanalytic biography entitled, 'Herbert Graf: From Freud’s Little Hans to Opera Pioneer,' to be published by International Psychoanalytic Books in 2023, and also editing the writings of Max Graf, the father of “Little Hans,” who worked with Freud on the psychoanalysis of music.

Dr. Abrams's foundation is in Contemporary Freudian psychoanalysis with extensive training also in the analytic approaches of Winnicott, Sullivan, and Michael Eigen. His major research interests are in Freud’s treatment cases, close process defense analysis, genetic reconstruction, child psychoanalytic process, the psychoanalysis of music, psychoanalysis and spirituality and in the shift in child and adult cases from psychoanalytic treatment to post-treatment self-analysis.

Contact Information:

Clinical address: 1270 Broadway, Room 803, New York, NY 10001
Phone: (646) 715-7467
Email: david.m.abrams@gmail.com