Experience

If you are interested, here are some more details about my experience and work.

People and issues I work with: I have worked with people from diverse backgrounds and with a wide spectrum of personal, psychological, and psychiatric issues. Here are some of the issues that people often bring to me: difficulties with satisfaction or fulfillment in career, work, relationships or creative pursuits; problems with mood, anxiety, depression or related difficulties; mental “blocks” or “stuckness”, and problems focusing; performance anxiety or “pressure”; insomnia and sleep problems; preoccupations or obsessive thoughts; difficulties breaking certain habits; issues with self-esteem or confidence; issues or questions surrounding self-image, body-image, or what it means to be yourself; issues surrounding identity (of any kind); dissociative or depersonalized experiences; difficulties with socializing or being in relationship with others; family or social conflict; major life transitions; loss and grieving; trauma; death of family or loved ones; emotions and experiences relating to climate change, war, political and social conflict; addictive behaviors and related patterns of thought and emotion; problems with anger or frustration.

Psychotherapy and psychoanalysis: I have training and experience working with various types of psychotherapies, and an understanding of their theoretical and practical foundations. Over time, I have gravitated most to psychoanalysis. I am currently a candidate psychoanalyst at SFCP, one of the psychoanalytic institutes in the San Francisco Bay Area, in a rigorous post-graduate training program that psychotherapists can pursue sometime after their graduate training.

Psychiatry: I trained at a psychiatry residency program focused on extensive psychotherapy and psychopharmacology training, community health, serving under-resourced communities, and integrated/collaborative care (across professions/specialties and levels of care). I have experience working with people with a wide range of psychiatric diagnoses and situations, including psychologically-, socially-, and medically-complex situations.

Education

Pomona College Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Neuroscience

Chicago Medical School Doctor of Medicine (MD)

Harvard / Cambridge Health Alliance Psychiatry Residency

San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program

Earlier Academic Pursuits

Neuroscience: In college and medical school, before gravitating more to psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, I studied various topics in neuroscience, such as the neuroscience of metaphor processing and of emotions, with particular focus on the extended amygdala and related limbic circuitry, and on mood, fear, anxiety, aggression, and affiliation. I have worked at or in affiliation with various neuroscience laboratories, including the Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior (The Rockefeller University), The Brain and Creativity Institute (USC), the Rosenkranz lab (Chicago Medical School), and with Dr. Louis Cozolino (Pepperdine University). I have given various research poster presentations, educational talks, and published peer reviewed manuscripts on these topics.

Publications:

• Adams T, Rosenkranz JA. Social Isolation During Postweaning Development Causes Hypoactivity of Neurons in the Medial Nucleus of the Male Rat Amygdala. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2016 Jun;41(7):1929-40. PMID 26677945.

• Borelli E, Butera C, Katirai A, Adams TCE, Aziz-Zadeh L. Impact of motor stroke on novel and conventional action metaphor comprehension. Brain and Language. 2022 Mar;226:105081. PMID 35051790.

• Adams TCE, Lim CT, Huang H. The Practice of Psychiatric e-Consultation: Current State and Future Directions. Harvard Review of Psychiatry. 2022 May-Jun;30(3):191-197.