The newly emergent research into the microbiome provides a useful metaphor for understanding that a cluster of interdependent factors may play a role in individual mental health.
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Susan Bodnar, PhD is a practicing clinical psychologist. She also teaches as an adjunct faculty member at Teachers College/Columbia University and The Stephen Mitchell Relational Center. Also, she works as an assistant editor of "Psychoanalytic Dialogues," and serves on the editorial board of "Contemporary Psychoanalysis." Having studied anthropology at Wesleyan University, she received her PhD from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in medical psychology at Roosevelt Hospital, and psychoanalytic training at the William Alanson White Institute.
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