Richard L. Kradin

Richard L. Kradin, MD is one of the most distinctive voices in American analytical psychology, holding the rare distinction of being both a physician-scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and a practicing Jungian analyst. Born in New York City, he received a BA and MS in Chemical Physics from New York University before attending Jefferson Medical College. He joined the staff of Massachusetts General Hospital with appointments across Pulmonary Medicine, Pathology, and Psychiatry, and later earned a post-graduate degree in comparative religion from Harvard University.

Dr. Kradin trained in both Freudian and Jungian analysis, giving him an unusual breadth of psychoanalytic perspective. He served as Research Director of the Harvard Medical School Mind/Body Medical Institute and has published more than 200 articles in the medical and psychoanalytic literature, along with seven textbooks. His major works include The Herald Dream: An Approach to the Initial Dream in Psychotherapy (2006), The Placebo Response and the Power of Unconscious Healing (2008), Pathologies of the Mind/Body Interface (2012), and The Parting of the Ways: The Role of Esoteric Judaism in the Psychoanalytical Theories of Freud (2016).

He is the recipient of the Gradiva Prize from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. Now Professor Emeritus at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Kradin continues to serve as a supervising analyst and teaches courses on dream interpretation at the Jung Institute of Boston.