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Tamara McClintock Greenberg Psy.D.

About

Tamara McClintock Greenberg, Psy.D., M.S., is a psychologist and psychotherapist in San Francisco, as well as an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. She studies health psychology, psychoanalytic psychology, and the integration of the two. She supervises and teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area on the culture of Western Medicine, psychotherapy, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and medical consultation. She is the author of Psychodynamic Perspectives on Aging and Illness; When Someone You Love Has a Chronic illness; and The Complex PTSD Coping Skills Workbook.

Books by Tamara McClintock Greenberg Psy.D.
Recent Posts
When Your Parent Has Dementia
Baby Boomers often remark that while their parents “did everything for them,” there was not a lot of space for emotional topics.
It’s Not 'All in Your Head.' It’s in Your Brain.

Current research helps us to understand that some physical illnesses, especially those that are not easily explained, are not made up at all. They are the result of complex neuroendocrine responses due to heredity, trauma and stress. The symptoms are real. They are not all in one’s head.

Current research helps us to understand that some physical illnesses, especially those that are not easily explained, are not made up at all. They are the result of complex neuroendocrine responses due to heredity, trauma and stress. The symptoms are real. They are not all in one’s head.

Who Says Wanting Control is a Bad Thing?

Yet, when it comes to our bodies, wanting to feel in charge is completely normal. But as we age it becomes less likely that we can control our bodies.

Yet, when it comes to our bodies, wanting to feel in charge is completely normal. But as we age it becomes less likely that we can control our bodies.

A Novel View of Grieving in The Leftovers

Trauma and loss causes us to lose ourselves. Healing involves finding the right relationships that can help us grieve, but also live.

Trauma and loss causes us to lose ourselves. Healing involves finding the right relationships that can help us grieve, but also live.

What Do We Really Need From Our Friends?

Now, a new study has come out that helps us understand what we need from our friends in order to stay healthy—we need to be able to confide in them.

Now, a new study has come out that helps us understand what we need from our friends in order to stay healthy—we need to be able to confide in them.

How To Talk About Illness

Many well-intentioned people say to someone who has a chronic illness or chronic pain, “You don’t look sick.” Unfortunately, this comment falls squarely in the Offensive Things category. Many people who are ill do not appear to be.

Many well-intentioned people say to someone who has a chronic illness or chronic pain, “You don’t look sick.” Unfortunately, this comment falls squarely in the Offensive Things category. Many people who are ill do not appear to be.