Clinical Psychiatry News is pleased to announce the addition of Richard W. Cohen, MD, to its Editorial Advisory Board.
Dr. Richard W. Cohen
Dr. Cohen is a board-certified psychiatrist. For the last 25 years, he has been in full-time private practice in Center City Philadelphia, where he treats patients with depression, anxiety disorders, relationship problems using psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and medication management. Dr. Cohen has a special interest in sports psychology – improving the mental toughness and performance of junior, collegiate, and pro athletes.
He graduated from medical school at Temple University, Philadelphia, where he had a wonderful experience assisting the late behaviorist Joseph Wolpe, MD, in agoraphobia research.
Dr. Cohen was chief resident at Albert Einstein Medical Center in New York, and at one point held a trifaculty appointment at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, in psychiatry, family medicine, and otolaryngology. At Jefferson, Dr. Cohen codirector of the alcohol and substance abuse education program. He also edited a textbook entitled “What a Student Should Know,” which integrated issues of alcoholism into all subjects in the medical school curriculum.
He has lectured extensively both locally and nationwide at tennis academies helping players improve their overall accomplishments. In addition, Dr. Cohen has appeared on various television shows discussing addictions, relationship issues, and sports psychiatry. Furthermore, he has published numerous articles on these topics.
Dr. Cohen was the fifth-ranked high school tennis player in the United States and he has been ranked No. 1 in both the Middle States and the country in various junior and senior age divisions. He was the captain of the University of Pennsylvania Ivy League Championship tennis team and played No. 1 on Penn’s National Intercollegiate Championship squash team. Dr. Cohen has garnered 17 National Tennis Championship Gold Balls over the years. In 2012, Dr. Cohen was inducted into the Philadelphia Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Nancy, and they have two adult children, Josh and Julia, who are world-class tennis players.