Theodore Shapiro was a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in New York. He passed away on August 11, 2026 at age 96. Academic and medical career Shapiro served as director of the division of child psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical and New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine for over 25 years, until he took emeritus status in 2002.. Between 1984 and 1993, Shapiro served as Editor of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association..
Shapiro published over 200 research articles and chapters, and he authored or co-authored nine psychiatric textbooks. As Arnold Cooper wrote, "his publications include significant contributions to our understanding of empathy, autism, linguistic structure, symbol formation, and diagnosis, among other topics."
At the time of his death, Shapiro was a professor emeritus in psychiatry and pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College and the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic. He was also a long-time training and supervising psychoanalyst at the New York Psychoanalytic InstituteNew York Psychoanalytic Institute Membership Roster, retrieved 2009-07-05. and a faculty member of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research faculty roster 2008-2009 , retrieved 2009-07-05.
Shapiro graduated from Wesleyan University in 1953 and from the Weill Cornell Medical College in 1957..Physician profile from Weill Cornell Medical College, retrieved 2009-07-05.
Published works Infant Psychiatry: A New Synthesis (with Eveoleen N. Rexford and Louis W. Sander). Yale University Press, 1976. . Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Science (edited collection). International Universities Press, 1977. . Clinical psycholinguistics. Plenum Press, 1979. . The Concept of Structure in Psychoanalysis. International Universities Press, 1989. . Affect: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (with Robert N. Emde). International Universities Press, 1992. . Research in psychoanalysis: process, development, outcome (with Robert N. Emde). International Universities Press, 1995. . Manual of panic-focused psychodynamic psychotherapy (with Barbara Milrod, Arnold Cooper, and Fredric Busch). American Psychiatric Pub., 1996. . Psychodynamic treatment of depression (with Fredric Busch and Marie Rudden). American Psychiatric Pub., 2004. . Psychodynamic Approaches to the Adolescent with Panic Disorder (with Barbara Milrod and Fredric Busch). Krieger Publishing Company, 2004. .
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