Richard Tuch

Education and Training

  • Undergraduate Education: University of California, Santa Barbara, 1971

  • Medical Degree: M.D., University of Southern California School of Medicine, 1975

  • Residency: University of California, Los Angeles Neuropsychiatric Institute, 1976–1979

  • Psychoanalytic Training: Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (NCP), 1984–1994

Practice Information

  • Practice Style: Intensive psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis

  • Theoretical Orientation: Eclectic, with training in ego psychology, object relations (Kleinian/Bion), relational and, most recently, Lacanian approaches

  • Patient Types: Individuals, couples, adults

  • Diagnostic Interests: Relational difficulties, anxiety, depression, personality disorders, perversion

Teaching and Supervision

  • Current Teaching Position: Individual supervision of residents for 45 years

  • Residents Supervised: Danielle MacDowell; Steven Server; Christine Staroschak; Taylor Smythe; Piyush Pete Nayyar

Contact Information

  • Office Address: 1800 Fairburn Ave, Suite 206

  • Office Phone: 310-474-1960

  • Mobile Phone: 310-991-1078

  • Email: richardtuch@gmail.com

  • Availability: Monday–Friday, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

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