Dr. Frederick Winsmann practices as a Clinical and Forensic Psychologist in Boston, Massachusetts. He has an office in Boston’s Back Bay. Testifying as an expert in trials, Dr. Winsmann provides information to the fact finder in regard to questions related to the intersection between the law and psychology.
Dr. Frederick Winsmann also treats patients with a wide range of difficulties, and seeks to reduce the overly pathological thinking that can be a problem in treatment. Dr. Winsmann was trained in psychoanalytic theory, while Dr. Winsmann views the multiple modality approach as vital to good care. Additionally, Dr. Winsmann views an existential type of interaction and professional relationship with patients as most helpful in invoking and maintaining positive and adaptive change and living.
Dr. Frederick Winsmann values classical psychoanalytical theorizing, while the later overall shift in thinking, within psychoanalytic theory, was a move from a model of tension-reduction to object-relatedness as the core of human motivation. This type of shift resonated with Dr. Winsmann as a clearer, more accurate, more compelling view of the human mental apparatus. For him, the internalization of relationships was the key not only to motivation, but also to the way individuals viewed themselves and transformed internal relational images into a sense of self.
Dr. Frederick Winsmann particularly appreciates the works of Stephen Mitchell, most notably his seminal work Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory, written with Jay Greenberg. At last there was a way to make sense of disparate psychoanalytic theories. Nonetheless, Dr. Winsmann sees the human experience as ultimately a spiritual one.
