Stanley H. Block M.D.

Stanley H. Block, M.D., is Adjunct Professor of Law and Psychiatry at Seattle University School of Law and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at University of Utah School Of Medicine. He is Board Certified in Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis. He has had academic appointments and taught at a number of medical schools, including his alma mater UCLA. Before entering medical school, he received an M.A. in physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Block is currently developing medical applications and practice centers based on Bridging the I-System® principles. He lives in Tacoma, Washington with his wife and collaborator Carolyn Bryant Block.

CURRICULUM VITAE

STANLEY H. BLOCK, M.D.

DATE OF BIRTH: October 5th, 1937

EDUCATION:

June 1959 B.S. Physics
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester, Massachusetts
January 1962 M.A. Physics
University of California
Berkeley, California
June 1965 M.D.
University of California
Los Angeles, California

RESIDENCY AND PRACTICE:

July 1965- Internship, Straight Medicine
July 1966 University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, Kansas
July 1966- Residency, Psychiatry
July 1969 Menninger Foundation
Topeka, Kansas
1970-1975 Psychoanalytic Training
Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute
Lost Angeles, California
1969-1980 Private Practice Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis
Beverly Hills and West Los Angeles, California
1980-1983 Sabbatical leave with study, research, and lecturing
1983-1984 Private Practice Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis
Crescent City, California
1985- Staff Psychiatrist
January 1986 Jackson Brook Institute
South Portland, Maine
January 1986- Medical Director December 1993 Jackson Brook Institute
South Portland, Maine
1986-1994 President of the following South Portland Professional Associations:
Psychiatric Services, P.A.;
Physicians Associates, P.A.;
B & H Medical Services, P.A.;
Eastern Maine Psychiatric Associates, P.A.;
Advanced Clinical Designs, Inc.
1989-1994 Chairman of the Board of Directors, President, and Founder
Portland Help Center
Portland, Maine
1994-2006 Writing, research, and lecturing
1998-2006 Adjunct Professor of Law and Psychiatry Seattle University School of Law
Seattle, Washington

DESCRIPTION OF PAST POSITIONS:

Chairman of the Board of Directors, President, and Founder: Portland Help Center
Originated a non-profit organization dedicated to meeting the needs of the area’s homeless and chronically mentally ill through outreach and outpatient services. Assembled and supervised a staff of psychiatrists, nurses, and social workers. Organization presently continues to function and expand services.
President: Advanced Clinical Designs, Inc.
Originated and supervised an incorporated group of medical
professionals providing consulting to institutions throughout New
England. Dedicated to improving clinical services in substance
abuse and dual diagnosis programs.
President: Eastern Maine Psychiatric Associates, P.A.
Originated and supervised a professional association of psychiatrists providing inpatient and outpatient treatment in Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, Maine.
President: B &H Medical Services, P.A.
Originated and supervised a group of medical professionals providing inpatient and outpatient services in the areas of substance abuse and dual diagnosis treatment at Jackson Brook Institute in South Portland, Maine.
President: Physicians Associates, P.A.
Originated and supervised a professional association that provided emergency medical services, inpatient medical services, and both in and outpatient substance abuse services in hospitals throughout southern Maine.
President: Psychiatric Services, P.A.
Originated and supervised the largest psychiatric professional association in Maine, consisting of board certified adult, adolescent, and child psychiatrists providing a complete continuum of care to patients throughout Maine. Services were provided to schools, prisons, jails, nursing homes, general hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, outpatient clinics, partial hospitalization programs, outreach for the homeless, eating disorder programs, substance abuse programs, child and adolescent programs, geriatric programs, involuntary programs, and forensic psychiatry programs.
Medical Director: Jackson Brook Institute
JBI is a private, 105 bed psychiatric hospital, providing a full continuum of treatment services to patients of all ages throughout northern New England. Achievements as director include the initialization and development of Maine’s first children’s unit, an eating disorder program, a dual diagnosis program, and a closed unit for the State’s most difficult and aggressive patients.

TEACHING:

1970-1980 Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
UCLA
Los Angeles, California
1977-1980 Faculty
Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute
Los Angeles, California
1981-1982 Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
University of Nevada Medical School
Reno, Nevada
1987-1994 Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Boston University School of Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts
1998-Present Adjunct Professor of Law and Psychiatry
Seattle University School of Law
Seattle, Washington

2006-Present Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry
University of Utah School Of Medicine

CERTIFICATIONS:

1971 Board Certified – Psychiatry
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
1975 Board Certified - Psychoanalysis
American Psychoanalytic Association

MEMBERSHIPS:

American Psychoanalytic Association
International Psychoanalytic Association
American Psychiatric Association
American Medical Association

PUBLICATIONS:

A Neural Net for Adaptive Behavior – Rand Corporation
Publication, 1962
Psyche, Sex, and Stocks: The Psychodynamic Key to
Beating the Market – Windsor Books, 1973
The Grocery Store High – American Journal of Psychiatry, January 1978
Paradoxical Euphoria in Diabetes Mellitus – Psychosomatics
January 1979
Psychotherapy of the Individual with Brain Injury – Journal of
Brain Injury, December 1987
Bridging the I-System: Unifying Spirituality and Behavior
White Cloud Press, July 2002
Come To Your Senses: Demystifying the Mind-Body Connection
Beyond Words Publishing, April 2005

PRESENTATIONS:

Presenter: “Differential Diagnosis and DSM III”
The Difficult to Diagnose Psychiatric Patient (Conference)
Jackson Brook Institute in collaboration with Cambridge Hospital
Portland, Maine – 1985
Presenter: “Psychotherapy of the Individual with Brain Injury”
Maine Head Injury Conference
Portland, Maine – 1986
Originator and Facilitator: “Maine’s Troubled Children” (Conference)
Jackson Brook Institute and Medical Care Development
Portland, Maine – 1987
Originator and Facilitator: “The Spiritual Dimension of Medicine and
Psychiatry” (Conference)
Jackson Brook Institute and Medical Care Development
Portland, Maine – 1987
Presenter: “Considerations of Aggression and Violence”
The Battering Syndrome Conference
V.A. Social Work Service and Cooperative Health Education Program
and Maine Consortium for Health Professions Education
Portland, Maine – 1988
Speaker: “Spirituality and Psychotherapy”
United Way of Greater Portland
Portland, Maine – 1988
Originator and Facilitator: “Women’s Health Beyond 35” (Conference)
Jackson Brook Institute and Medical Care Development
Portland, Maine – 1989
Speaker: “Psychiatric Hospitalization: Its Role in the Community”
Gulf Shore Institute
Crystal River, Florida – 1989
Speaker: “Psychiatric Hospital Treatment”
Update in Psychiatry
Maine Medical Center
Portland, Maine – 1989
Speaker: “Is Sigmund Freud Alive and Well Today?”
University of Southern Maine
Gorham, Maine – 1990
Originator and Facilitator: “New Frontiers in Psychiatry”
Jackson Brook Institute and Maine Medical Center
Portland, Maine – 1990
Numerous presentations in New England on psychiatric hospitalization,
involuntary commitment, child and adolescent treatment, eating disorders,
dual diagnosis, substance abuse treatment, and treatment of patients with
chronic mental illness. 1990 – 1993
Various presentations throughout the country on psychiatry and spirituality
1994 –2001
Bridging The I-System Presentations 2001-Present