Psychoanalytic Psychologist
A psychologist whose specialty is distinguished from other specialties by its body of knowledge and its intensive treatment approaches. It aims at structural changes and modifications of a person's personality. Psychoanalysis promotes awareness of unconscious, maladaptive and habitually recurrent patterns of emotion and behavior, allowing previously unconscious aspects of the self to become integrated and promoting optimal functioning, healing and creative expression.
Psychoanalytic Psychologists in San Francisco, CA
Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Wendy L. Stern is a Clinical Psychologist in San Francisco, CA
with special training and skill in identifying and managing psychological disorders.
As a Clinical Psychologist, Wendy L. Stern, DMH performs
psychological evaluations and creates treatment protocols. Clinical Psychology is
the diagnosis and treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral dysfunctions. Significant diseases and conditions treated by
Clinical Psychologists include phobias, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, and schizophrenia.
Medical tests, procedures and therapies provided by Clinical Psychologists
include diagnostic observations and cognitive-behavioral therapy.
A psychologist who provides continuing and comprehensive mental and behavioral health care for individuals and families; consultation to agencies and communities; training, education and supervision; and research-based practice. It is a specialty in breadth -- one that is broadly inclusive of severe psychopathology -- and marked by comprehensiveness and integration of knowledge and skill from a broad array of disciplines within and outside of psychology proper. The scope of clinical psychology encompasses all ages, multiple diversities and varied systems.
Clinical Psychologists in San Francisco, CA
