BACKGROUND
Sherwood Faigen has been providing psychodynamic psychotherapy and clinical consultation in Oak Park, Illinois, for more than 25 years. After graduating from Northwestern University, he attended the London School of Economics. Subsequently he graduated from the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. He obtained advanced training in child and adolescent diagnosis and psychotherapy from the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, where he graduated from the Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Therapy Program.
In addition to working in his practice of psychotherapy and consultation, he is a core faculty member of the Institute for Clinical Social Work, where he is the Co-ordinator of the Clinical Practicum and has taught Psychodynamic Theory, clinical Case Conference, Adolescence, and Obstacles to Therapeutic Process.
He has presented at numerous conferences on topics ranging from treating acting out adolescents to dealing with therapeutic impasses. His main clinical interests are psychodynamic psychotherapy, helping parents understand and deal with children with emotional and behavioral problems, and helping patients to resolve emotional difficulties related to post-surgical complications.
