Robert Michels (born 1936) is Professor of Medicine and of Psychiatry at

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and a training and supervising psychoanalyst at the

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. A native of

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, Michels graduated from the

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and Northwestern University's medical school.Cooper, Arnold M
Contemporary psychoanalysis in America: leading analysts present their work
p. 401 (bio section on Michels) (2006) After a residency and psychoanalytic training at Columbia, Michels completed a fellowship at the

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. Michels was named chairman of Cornell's psychiatry department in 1974. He served seventeen years as chairman at the

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and served as

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of Cornell's medical school from 1991 to 1996.(19 April 1991)
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'' Michels has been a Fellow of

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since 1970. He is the author of many articles and has co-edited multiple texts. His best known work is ''The Psychiatric Interview in Clinical Practice'', which was written with Roger MacKinnon and published in 1971. A second edition was published in 2006.

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Robert Michels, M.D. - Cornell
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Michels, Robert Cornell University faculty University of Chicago alumni Feinberg School of Medicine alumni Living people Hastings Center Fellows American psychiatrists American psychoanalysts 1936 births