Dr. Robert Garfield

Dr. Rob Garfield is a psychiatrist and family therapist, with an active private practice in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. He also teaches in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. He was raised in Evanston, Illinois, received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University, and then returned to the Midwest for medical training at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago. He completed his residency in psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin in 1974.

For nearly 40 years, Dr. Garfield has practiced and taught systems-oriented therapy, which focuses on a person’s total environment in helping them resolve their emotional problems. Over the last decade, he has deeply explored men’s issues, male emotional intimacy and the dilemmas men face in engaging in traditional psychotherapy.