Samuel Ritvo, M.D.

Research Interests

Dr. Samual Ritvo, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, has been with the Child Study Center since 1965. His research interests include adolescent development, eating disorders and body image problems in child analysis, anxiety and symptom formation, as well as longitudinal studies of child development. At one time, Dr. Ritvo was the President of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Association for Child Psychoanalysis. Dr. Ritvo went to Harvard University before attending the Yale University School of Medicine, where he earned his M.D. Prior to coming to the Yale Child Study Center, Dr. Ritvo was a training and supervising analyst for the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis and the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.

Curriculum Vitae & Links

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Recent Publications

• Adolescent to Woman. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 24: 1976. No. 5. Supplement on Female Psychology. Pp. 127-137.
• Anxiety, Symptom Formation, and Ego Autonomy. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child 36: 339-364, 1981. Freud Lecture, New York Psychoanalytic Society
• The Image and Uses of the Body in Psychic Conflict: With Special Reference to Eating Disorders in Adolescence. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. 39: 449-469, 1984
• Mothers, Daughters, and Eating Disorders. In Blum, H., Kramer, Y., Richards, A.K., and Richards, A.D. Fantasies, Myths and Reality: Essays in Honor of Jacob A. Arlow, M.D. New York: 1UP, 423-434, 1988
• Play and Illusion. (Freud Lecture at Yale University). International Press. 1991.
• Observations on the Long Term Effects of Child Analysis. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. 52: 365-385. 1996.
• Double Dipping: Child Development who return as young adults
• Conflicts of aggression in coming of age: Journal of Clinical Psychoanalysis, 2003
• Form perception & Imitation in some Autistic Children: Diagnosis Findings & Their Contextual Interpretation. Psychoanal. Study of the Child, Vol. 8, 1953 (with S.A. Provence)
• Influences of Early Mother-Child Interaction on Identification Processes. Psychoanalyt. Study of the Child, Vol. 13, 1958. (with Albert J. Solnit)
• Relations of Constitution, Environment and Personality, as Observed in a Longitudinal Study of Child Development: Case Report. In: Modern Perspectives in Child Development. Internat’l Univ. Press, Oct. 1963. (with McCollum, Omwake, Provence, Solnit)
• Late Adolescence: Developmental and Clinical Considerations. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. Vol. 27, 1972.

Contact

Campus Address
Child Study Center
230 South Frontage Road
P.O. Box 207900
New Haven, CT 06520-7900

E-mail
samuel.ritvo@yale.edu