flgriffin@uabmc.edu
Phone Number: 205-996-2452
Specialty: Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis
Hospital Affiliations: UAB Hospital
Faculty Title: Associate Professor
School of Medicine: U T Southwestern Medical School (Dallas, Texas)
Internship: Timberlawn Psychiatric Center
Residencies: Timberlawn Psychiatric Center
Fellowships: New Orleans Psychoanalytic Institute
Certifications: Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis
Type of Treatment: Outpatient Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
Teaching Position with UAB: Director, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Training Program
Other Academic Positions:
Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center - 2006 to Present
New Directions in Psychoanalytic Critical and Thinking
(Washington Psychoanalytic Society)
Guest Faculty - October 2006
Writing Consultant - 2006 to Present
Psychoanalytic Quarterly Board of Editorial Reviewers - 2006 to Present
Recent Publications:
The Fortunate Physician: Learning from Our Patients, in Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine,
Ed. P. Rudnytsky and R. Charon. New York: State University of New York Press, February 2008.
Teaching Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Voices That Have Reach. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Vol. 54/4, Fall 2006.
(http://apsa.org/PUBLICATIONS/JAPA/AVAILABLEISSUES/JAPA544Fall2006/tabid/456/Default.aspx)
Clinical Conversations between Psychoanalysis and Imaginative Literature, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, LXXIV, No. 2, April 2005
(http://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=PAQ.074.0443A)
One Form of Self-Analysis, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, LXXIII, July 2004
(http://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=PAQ.073.0683A)
The Fortunate Physician: Learning from Our Patients, Literature and Medicine, Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine issue, Volume 23, No. 2, Fall 2004
(http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/literature_and_medicine/v023/23.2griffin.html)
Conversations with Physicians about the Doctor-Patient Relationship" (with R. Paulsen), The American Psychoanalyst, Winter 2004
Recent Presentations:
- What Neuroscience Tells Us about How and Why Psychotherapy Works,
Grand Rounds in UAB Department of Psychiatry.
Part 1 October 7, 2007.
Part 2 October 14, 2007.
- Alabama Psychiatric Society March 30, 2007, Sandestin, FL
- Love and Loss as Portrayed in a Painting by Benjamin West, Birmingham Museum of Art, February 13, 2007
- The Necessity of Narrative in Medicine: The Story's Reach into Human Experience, UAB Honors Program,
January 4, 2007
- Imaginative Literature and the Psychoanalytic Process, New Directions in Psychoanalytic Writing, October 13,
2006, Washington, DC.
- What Is Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Really? Visiting Professor, SUNY Upstate Medical
University, June 29, 2006, Syracuse, NY.
- The Use of a Short Story to Resolve a Clinical Impasse: What Psychoanalysts Can Learn from
Creative Writers about the Analytic Space and the Process of Containment
Syracuse Psychoanalytic Study Group, June 29, 2006, Syracuse, NY.
- The Necessity of Art in Medicine, Address to UASOM Medical Student and Faculty AOA Art Show,
February 10, 2006.
- Narrative Medicine: Stories in Patient Care (with Waid Shelton, MD), Grand Rounds Presentations 2005-2006
in Departments of:
UASOM Department of Psychiatry, October 2005.
UASOM Department of Pulmonary Medicine
UASOM Department of Internal Medicine
UASOM Department of Pediatrics
UASOM Department of Physical Medicine
Tuscaloosa VA Hospital
- Workshop in Narrative Medicine, Tuscaloosa VA Hospital.
Part 1. Reading and Discussing Doctors' Stories August 2006
Part 2. Writing Your Own Narratives of the Physician-Patient Experience September 2006
- The Use of a Short Story to Resolve an Impasse in Psychotherapy: What Psychotherapists Can Learn from
Creative Writers about the Analytic Space and the Process of Containment, Grand Rounds, Department of
Psychiatry at UAB, May 2005
- Clinical Conversations between Psychoanalysis and Imaginative Literature," Dallas Psychoanalytic Society,
April 2005.
- What Is Psychodynamic Psychotherapy-Anyway?, Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry at UAB, March 2005
- Clinical Conversations between Psychoanalysis and Imaginative Literature, Memphis Psychoanalytic Study
Group, November, 2004
- Conversations with Doctors: From Balint Groups to Narrative Medicine, Discussion Group at Meetings of The
American Psychoanalytic Association:
San Francisco - June 2004
New York - January 2005
New York - January 2006
New York - January 2007
- The Physician-Patient Relationship According to Dr. William Carlos Williams, Presentation at 30th Reunion
Southwestern Medical School May 2004
- One Form of Self-Analysis, Presentations:
Birmingham Psychoanalytic Study Group - April 2004
Dallas Psychoanalytic Society - March 2004
Narrative Medicine:
UAB Publications Featuring Dr. Griffin's Work in Narrative Medicine:
"Narrative Medicine: Emphasizing the Humanness of the Physician-Patient Relationship."
UAB SYNOPSIS, Vol. 24, No. 23, June 20, 2005.
(http://www.uabhealth.org/16845/)
"Student Rounds: Medicine and the Arts," UAB Medicine, Vol. 31, No. 3, Winter 2006, pp 22-23:
(http://www.uab.edu/uasom/wcimg/uabmedicine_win2006.pdf)
"Life Stories: Another Kind of Page Calls Future Doctors." UAB Magazine, Summer 2007.
(http://main.uab.edu/show.asp?durki=113805)
"Journal Club: Narrative Medicine Writes a New Chapter in the Physician-Patient Relationship." UAB Medicine,
Summer 2007.
Other Interests:
Professional Writing in Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Medicine
Other Interdisciplinary Interests (with creative writing, literature, and art)