Felix Salomon, Ph.D.
earned his doctorate in Clinical Psychology in
1977 from Long Island University, Brooklyn, New
York. He has worked steadily as a Clinical
Psychologist for over 27 years. Dr. Salomon's
experience has included outpatient, inpatient,
and day hospitalization populations. Dr.
Salomon did his internship at the Nassau County
Medical Center and Hospital on Long Island. Dr.
Salomon's orientation is primarily Contemporary
Psychoanalytic with strong
Existential-Humanistic and Family Systems
influences. Throughout, he has applied his
orientation in assessment and therapy with
children, adolescents, adults, and geriatric
patients. His experiences in psychotherapy have
included individual, child-play, marital,
family, and group modalities. Dr. Salomon has
had intensive training with John E. Exner, Jr.,
Ph.D. in the Comprehensive System of the
Rorschach. Dr. Salomon has supervised and
taught paraprofessionals, psychology students
and interns, psychiatric residents, family
practice residents, psychiatrists, and
psychologists in his various positions as a
director of a Community Mental Health Center, as
a professor, and as a private practitioner.
Dr. Salomon was the co-founder and Founding
President of the Phoenix Psychoanalytic Study
Group. More recently, he was the
Chairperson of the Arizona State Psychological
Association Ethics Committee, 1997 to 2000.
Dr. Salomon was an Adjunct Professor in the
Clinical Psychology Program at the Arizona
School of Professional Psychology. From about 1978
to 1998, Dr. Salomon directed a
multi-disciplinary, private practice group, the
Phoenix Institute for Psychotherapy, Ltd. Since
about 1998, Dr. Salomon has been in solo,
private, independent practice in north-central
Phoenix. Dr. Salomon has authored articles for
the Arizona Psychological Association Newsletter
(e.g., A Supervisory Thing Happened on the Way
to the Ethics Forum and Ethics Beyond the Grave) and is a contributor to
several online psychoanalytic discussion
groups. In August 2001, Dr. Salomon presented
Ethics Beyond the Grave: Impact of the
Therapist's Death - Our Ethical
Responsibilities, at the APA Annual Convention
in San Francisco. Dr. Salomon is a member
of the Phoenix Practice Committee of the Southwest
Psychoanalytic Society. In September 2004, Dr.
Salomon was accepted for Training in
Psychoanalysis at The Institute of Contemporary
Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles.