Richard Gottlieb, M.D. is a psychiatrist in private practice in Phoenix, Arizona. A native of Syracuse, N.Y., Dr. Gottlieb moved with his family to the Phoenix area at age eleven. After graduating from Scottsdale High School he earned his Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Arizona State University, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his medical degree from the University Of Arizona College Of Medicine in Tucson. He then completed his Internship and Residency in Psychiatry at Harbor-UCLA in Torrance, California.

 

In 1986 he returned to Phoenix to set up his private practice in psychiatry. He has practiced there ever since. He is Board Certified in General Psychiatry. He is also currently a senior Clinical Associate at the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, from which he will soon graduate and earn a Psy.D. degree in Psychoanalysis.

 

He is currently the President of the Southwest Psychoanalytic Society. He is also the founder and owner of PsycHealth, an Independent Practitioner's Association. He is also the founder, owner and Clinic Manager of Paradise Valley Psychiatric Associates, the flagship PsycHealth Member Clinic near Paradise Valley Mall. Phoenix Magazine has named him one of the Valley's "Top Docs" three out of the past five years, an honor bestowed by vote of his professional colleagues.

 

Dr. Gottlieb practices general psychiatry, psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. He works 100% of his time in an outpatient, private practice setting. He accepts most health insurance plans for diagnostic evaluations and medication management. He does psychotherapy and psychoanalysis exclusively on a fee-for-service basis.