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Jerry Gans  

781-235-1546  
Jsgans@comcast.net  

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Dr. Gans is a Distinguished Life Fellow of both the American Psychiatric Association and American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA). He is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a Clinical Associate in Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).  He is Co-Chair of the Fellowship and Awards Committee of the AGPA.  For the last 20 years he has run the T-Group for the PGY2-PGY4 psychiatric residents at the MGH/McLean combined residency program. Dr. Gans has 40 years experience leading groups and has published widely on group and individual therapy, psychological aspects of physical rehabilitation, liaison psychiatry, and psychotherapy and literature. He is a supervisor at  the Psychoanalytic and Couples and Family of New England.  He has lectured, supervised, presented workshops, led institutes and demonstration groups locally and nationally and internationally on a variety of group psychotherapy topics,  His first book, Difficult Topics in Group Psychotherapy: My Journey from Shame to Courage. was published by Karnac Books of London in 2010.  For more information visit his website at  info@ganspsychiatry.com

Dr. Gans believes that group therapy offers a unique, safe and trusting environment in which to work on those internal difficulties that interfere with or compromise authentic connections with other people.

Parking: Free parking is available on the street.

Location: The office in Wellesley is located about three miles west of Route 128 off Route 9.