Biography
Henry Markman became interested in becoming a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst when he encountered Freud’s work as a Comparative Literature major at UCLA.
He studied medicine at UCSF, then did his psychiatric residency at UCSF Langley Porter, In his residency, he worked part-time as medical director of an adolescent day treatment program in the Mission District of SF. While in residency he was also a Macarthur Research Fellow studying qualities of language in the therapeutic conversation. After residency, he began his training at San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute. Along with his clinical private practice, he became the medical director of the adolescent in-patient and day treatment program at McAuley’s—St. Mary’s Hospital. He then continued his interest in adolescents at risk by becoming the medical director of the adolescent program at Herrick Hospital in Berkeley. This intensive work with adolescents complemented his work with adolescents in his private practice—an interest he continues to the present time. Eventually, Henry Markman moved into a full-time clinical practice, seeing adults and adolescents in analytically-oriented therapy and psychoanalysis.
Along with his commitment to clinical work, Dr. Markman pursued his passion for teaching. Over the last thirty years, he taught analytic candidates, psychotherapy training students, and a wide range of clinicians with various experience in consultation and study groups. The topics are wide-ranging, from major theorists like Freud, Klein, Bion, and Ferenczi, to various schools of analysis like French and Latin American. He has led numerous clinical case conferences. For over ten years he co-chairs of Dialogues in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, a program that offers the Bay Area clinical community a range of relevant clinical topics and controversies.
Henry Markman presented his clinical ideas at SFCP Scientific Meetings and at the Dialogues in Contemporary Psychoanalysis Program. He also presented nationally at the American Psychoanalytic meetings, various analytic societies, and at the International Psychoanalytic Association meetings.
In addition to his focus on the clinical situation, Henry Markman draws from his interest in music and the arts to deepen his understanding of therapeutic conversation.