Fred L. Griffin, M.D.
is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst practicing in
Birmingham, Alabama.
He
is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the
University of Alabama
School of Medicine and a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst with the
New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center. He is certified in adult
psychoanalysis and in psychiatry.
During his
thirty years of practice, Dr. Griffin has devoted most of his
professional time to clinical work with patients in psychotherapy and
psychoanalysis. He sees
adults of all ages who are experiencing difficulties with self-esteem,
mood, interpersonal relationships, and
functioning up to potential in
their careers. In addition,
Dr. Griffin has worked with
writers who are encountering
problems with the creative process.
Dr. Griffin is Director of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Training at UASOM
where he teaches classes and supervises the work of psychiatric
residents. At the New
Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center he teaches,
supervises, and
provides personal psychoanalytic treatment for
psychoanalysts-in-training.
Dr. Griffin is active in professional writing and lecturing in psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and psychiatry. He also publishes and works in the field of narrative medicine, an emergent discipline in which physicians write creatively about their own experiences within the doctor-patient relationship. He has published in The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, The American Psychoanalyst, the Permanente Journal, and Literature and Medicine. He is on the Board of Editorial Readers of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly.