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Steven
Weisblatt

About Steven Weisblatt, MD

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Through a long and successful career, psychiatrist Steven Weisblatt, M.D., has advised a number of governmental and educational institutions. In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the Department of Public Welfare oversees the Office of Mental Retardation; there, Dr. Weisblatt participated in the Statewide Training Initiative through his training at the Dual Diagnosis Institute. The United States Department of Justice utilized his services for two years in its Human Rights Division. He also spent two years consulting with the State of New York’s Office of the Attorney General. In the educational realm, “Steven Weisblatt, M.D., assisted The Nisonger Center of Ohio State University as a member of its International Consensus Panel on Psychopharmacology. From 1988 to 1992, he served as a psychiatric consultant for the New York City Board of Education, evaluating students with mental health challenges.

Steven Weisblatt, M.D., opened his private practice in New York almost 25 years ago. Since then, he has expanded to a second office in Pocono Lake, Pennsylvania. The State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn in 2003 offered him an appointment as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Weisblatt was voluntary faculty, an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University, located in the borough of the Bronx in New York City. There, at the Einstein Hospital, he consulted with surgeons and physicians on their patients’ mental health needs. Steven Weisblatt, M.D., earned his Bachelor of Arts in Biomedical Sciences from Yeshiva University in 1979. There, he made the dean’s list and was named to the Alpha Epsilon Delta Premedical Honor Society. Immediately following receipt of his degree, he attended the SUNY Downstate Medical Center, graduating with a Doctor of Medicine in 1984. Dr. Weisblatt then commenced four years of a psychiatry residency at Yeshiva University’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Among his advanced training are stints in the Family Studies Section of Bronx Psychiatric Center and at New York’s William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis & Psychology. One of Steven Weisblatt, M.D.’s greatest honors is his receipt of the John Heinz Friend of Nursing Award. Nurses very rarely bestow awards upon physicians; in fact, the only other doctor to receive this award was Dr. Jonas Salk, inventor of the polio vaccine. Dr. Weisblatt received the honor from the Pennsylvania Nurses Association in 1995. He has been included in the list of the Best Doctors in America and Best Doctors in New York lists since the 1990s.


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  • A Brief History of Bipolar Disorder, By Steven Weisblatt, M.D.
    April, 2012
    Over the course of the last 2,000 years, the diagnosis and treatment of bipolar disorder has varied widely. First recorded in 300 AD, bipolar disorder was often believed to be indicative of possession by demons. However, ancient Greek physicians and philosophers theorized that the “mania” and “melancholia” they observed among bipolar individuals bolstered creativity. Interestingly, early Italian physicians prescribed for patients the lithium-rich waters from the country’s northern spas, even though it was not until the 1970s that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved lithium in medication form as a treatment for bipolar disorder.

    Between 1600 and 1900, researchers and physicians made many strides in understanding the disorder, eventually recognizing that the manic and melancholic episodes were indeed interconnected rather than two separate illnesses. Furthermore, the French psychiatrist, Jean-Pierre Falret, discovered that bipolar disorder is linked to genetics. In the 20th century, such psychiatrists as Karl Leonhard, Emil Kraepelin, and Robert Spitzer contributed significantly to the classification and terminology surrounding bipolar disorder. Today, individuals with bipolar disorder have access to a variety of treatment options, including several classes of medication (antipsychotics, antidepressants, and mood stabilizers) as well as cognitive-behavioral counseling.

    Dr. Steven Weisblatt has published a number of articles for the patient-centered bipolar publication BP Magazine. In 1995, he was presented with the John Heinz Friend of Nursing Award.