| Katharine Porter MD offers psychotherapy, psychoanalysis and psychiatric services to young adults/students, creative people, parents, couples, people with bipolar disorder, people with attention deficit disorder and others. She works with patients collaboratively to achieve goals such as greater freedom in what they choose for themselves, greater satisfaction in relationships and work, a sense of mastery over emotions, symptoms, or sources of distress and deeper self-understanding and comfort with who they are. She is a Training and Supervising Analyst who has taught in the Psychoanalytic Education Program and the Fellowship Program at the Institute. Affiliations: Dr. Porter was previously on the faculty of the Emory Psychoanalytic Institute and a visiting teacher at the Milwaukee Psychoanalytic Institute. She was also a faculty member at the Emory University School of Medicine, where she served as medical director of the Adult Psychiatric Day Treatment Program at Grady Memorial Hospital. Before training as a psychiatrist, she spent ten years as a board certified pediatrician. She served on the clinical faculty of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and worked at the Khao-I-Dang Holding Center for Kampucheans in Aranyaprathet, Thailand and at the Rincon Rural Health Initiative Project in Rincon, Puerto Rico. Education: Dr. Porter completed her pediatrics residency at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, her psychiatry residency at Emory University School of Medicine and her psychoanalytic training at Emory Psychoanalytic Institute. She is Board Certified in pediatrics and maintains Board Certification in psychiatry and in psychoanalysis. She is also a Level One Certified Breath-Body-Mind Trainer. |
