Since the early 1980s, Dr. Christopher Bayer has practiced as a professional New York City-based psychologist and psychoanalyst, specializing in the treatment of financial services executives, and their families, in the banking and securities industries.
Dr. Bayer’s early training took place at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Clark was the first graduate school in the United States, and the only place Sigmund Freud lectured in this country (Freud and Carl Jung Lectures, 1909). Dr. Bayer earned a Certificate of Specialization in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis from New York University’s Postdoctoral Psychology Program in 1982. He was an Adjunct Lecturer at the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine for eight years, taught Dream Analysis at the Long Island Institute of Mental Health for four years, and he has lectured at the School of Social Work at Adelphi University, Molloy College, and the Henry George School of Social Science. For ten years, Dr. Bayer was the Psychological Consultant at the Highland Preparatory School. He has been a Clinical Supervisor in Yeshiva University’s Psychology Doctoral Program, and he has trained interns and residents in Hillside Hospital’s Psychology Internship Program. He has worked in a variety of settings: psychiatric hospitals (state and private), correctional facilities, drug and alcohol rehabilitation units, correctional institutions, community mental health centers, and various court systems (family, supreme, and federal).
Dr. Bayer has published extensively in the following areas: perception and psychophysics, the behavioral treatment of trichotillomania, cognitive impairment as a function of anti-hypertensive medications, psychological adjustment in Canadian resource frontier communities, psychological aspects of testimony, community psychology internship training, programming for chronic psychiatric patients, prison counseling programs, and the development and application of “toxic product syndrome theory” to business sustainability scenarios and financial products.