Ira Steinman has focused on schizophrenia for 45 years; his early training ranged from studying with R.D. Laing to working at the National Academy of Sciences' Drug Efficacy Study, which evaluated all the antipsychotic
medications available at that time. For more than 35 years, he has pursued
an out-patient psychiatric practice where he has been able to demonstrate
that an intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy, in conjunction with the
judicious use of antipsychotic medication, can help even the most lost and
disturbed schizophrenic and delusional patients recover, heal and, at
times, achieve a cure. With such an approach, some allegedly "untreatable"
schizophrenics have been able to work their way off of antipsychotic
medication. He has spoken on this subject at length on a local, statewide,
national and international level for more than twenty five years. He is a
member of the ISPS (International Society for the Psychological Treatments
of the Schizophrenias and other Psychoses); the American Psychiatric
Association; and the Northern California Psychiatric Association.