Dr. Cynthia Dyess, a physician who specializes in psychiatric and psychoanalytic medicine in San Francisco, California, has operated her private practice since 2008. With 21 years of clinical experience, Dr. Dyess has also published several scholarly works contributing to the field of mental health.

Dr. Cynthia Dyess attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she completed her undergraduate education. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University in 1978 and graduated summa cum laude. The following year, Dr. Dyess studied philosophy at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, before returning to California to study medicine. She completed her pre-medicine requisites at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1982 and then returned to New Haven to obtain her M.D. at the Yale School of Medicine.

After completing a surgery and medicine internship at the University of California Hospitals in 1987, Dr. Cynthia Dyess undertook a residency in psychiatry at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. She finished in 1990 and proceeded to launch her own psychoanalytic and psychiatric practice in the Seattle area. Dr. Cynthia Dyess gained further training at the Seattle Institute for Psychoanalysis, where she completed an intensive training program.

After six years of building a successful practice, Dr. Cynthia Dyess took on added responsibilities as a faculty member at the Northwest Center for Psychoanalysis (NCP) in 1996. She became one of the top lecturers at the institution, which remains dedicated to engendering effective forms of psychoanalytic teaching. Dr. Cynthia Dyess’ courses and seminars included topics on psychoanalysis and sexual difference, psychoanalysis and post-modernism, and Jacques Marie Emile Lacan’s impact on the field.

Dr. Cynthia Dyess also discusses the work of Lacan, an influential and controversial French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, in some of her published works, including “Beyond Object Relations: Lacanian Inspired Theories of Violence.” She discussed this particular piece at a lecture sponsored by the Northwestern Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study, a group that she belonged to between 1998 and 2008. Dr. Cynthia Dyess has also published work in medical and scholarly journals such as Cancer and Psychoanalytic Dialogues.