Richard Brockman, MD is Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is Visiting Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Namibia, School of Medicine, Windhoek, Namibia. 

He is an attending psychiatrist at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York.   

He has written over 40 papers published in peer review journals primarily focusing neural science and clinical psychiatry. His book, A Map of the Mind, towards a science of psychotherapy was published by International Universities Press and was reviewed widely including the New England Journal of Medicine, The American Journal of Psychiatry, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis among many others. His book, Life After Death, Surviving Suicide is to be published by Arcade Press/Skyhorse/Simon and Schuster, in August 2023.  

He is the neuroscience editor for The Journal of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. He has served on the editorial boards for American Imago and the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies.

His teaching has been honored by his receipt of the Victor J. Teichner Visiting Scholar Award, from the American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis as well as the Nancy C.A. Roeske, MD, Certificate of Recognition for Excellence in medical student education from the American Psychiatric Association.     

He lectures widely in the United States and abroad.