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James Tobin, Ph.D., LLC is a licensed clinical psychologist with a psychotherapy practice in Boston (Back Bay), Massachusetts. He also serves as Clinical Instructor at Harvard Medical School, and staff psychologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital where he is supervisor in the Couple and Family Therapy Program.
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Education and Training Background
Dr. Tobin received an A.B. magna cum laude in Psychology and Social Relations from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He also is former advanced candidate in psychoanalysis at the Psychoanalytic Institute of New England, East.
Dr. Tobin’s academic training has focused on child and adolescent development and the dynamics of the family system. He has conducted empirical research on the quality of attachment between distressed adolescents and their parents. His clinical training has centered on psychodynamic, psychoanalytic, and family systems approaches to psychic change and on the unfolding interpersonal process between patient and therapist.
Prior to entering the field of clinical psychology, Dr. Tobin worked in human resources management consulting where he facilitated the change initiatives of work groups in Fortune 500 companies. He also holds a Masters of Fine Arts degree in Poetry from Indiana University.
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Services Offered / Areas of Clinical Specialty
Dr. Tobin’s clinical practice consists of individual psychotherapy with adolescents and adults. He also conducts couple and family therapy, as well as parent guidance training. Dr. Tobin offers groups and workshops for individuals who want to enhance their capacity for emotional and sexual intimacy, both at the beginning (dating) stages of a relationship and throughout the course of a long-term commitment. Issues concerning relationships, profession/career, and sexual compulsion, along with conditions including anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem, account for a majority of Dr. Tobin’s practice.
In addition, Dr. Tobin has recently begun to write about the conditions necessary to promote psychological and pragmatic change, work that has evolved from an emerging subgroup of patients who present for treatment feeling they have reached a stalemate in their lives, a state of “inertia” in which new experiences, important decisions, and opportunities for growth seem to have stalled.
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Clinical Approach
In his work with patients, Dr. Tobin integrates numerous perspectives including psychoanalytic/psychodynamic, family/systemic, cognitive, and interpersonal into a clinical orientation that focuses on the nature of the relationship between developmental history and contemporary problems and dilemmas.
The patient’s notions of his or her own identity, and potential inhibitions in one’s capacity to deconstruct such notions, is an important emphasis in Dr. Tobin's clinical approach. Dr. Tobin is interested in forming a collaborative relationship with patients in order to discover unacknowledged and/or undesirable aspects of experience that could ultimately promote self-insight and a greater appreciation of one’s mental life.
Dr. Tobin views the psychotherapeutic encounter as a vehicle for psychological change and he believes such change can be translated into one’s pragmatic life circumstances; his treatment approach emphasizes this translation and the factors which may obstruct it.
Another aspect of Dr. Tobin’s clinical approach is the application of concepts drawn from Buddhism and mindfulness meditation techniques to problems of emotional reactivity, relational distress, and negative/restricted self-concept.
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About TheChangingLife
An
educational Web-based resource, www.TheChangingLife.com was created by Dr. Tobin to bridge two audiences (mental health professionals and the lay person) in a mutually-informative dialogue about the study of change, the enhancement of psychological well-being, and how the psychotherapeutic process may encourage personal transformation. A particular focus of TheChangingLife is romantic love and factors which may increase one’s affinity for erotic and emotional intimacy.
Associated with the website and available to subscribers is a monthly newsletter/e-zine called “The Psychology of Change” which describes relevant psychological research and clinical theory, presents feature articles from clinicians, theorists, and researchers, and includes “Question of the Month” and resource recommendations sections. Also available to subscribers is “A Developmental Perspective on Erotic and Emotional Intimacy:
The E-Mail Series,” a weekly e-mail program that presents Dr. Tobin’s integration of psychological research and clinical theory into a set of concepts that may promote deeper levels of intimacy and sexual fulfillment. |
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If you would to register for a free subscription to TheChangingLife, please fill
out the information below; your subscription will provide you with the
monthly newsletter/e-zine "The Psychology of Change" and the weekly e-mail
program "A Developmental Perspective on Erotic and Emotional Intimacy: The
E-Mail Series."
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Your Subscription to TheChangingLife
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A Message from Dr. Tobin:
“I hope you find TheChangingLife to be an informative and useful
educational resource.”
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James Tobin, Ph.D., LLC
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Email:
JamesTobin@TheChangingLife.com
Phone: 617-480-9941
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James Tobin, Ph.D., LLC
82 Marlborough Street
Boston, MA 02116
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| Copyright © 2006 | All rights reserved | James Tobin |
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