Dr. Marlin S. Potash

Dr. Marlin S. Potash, Ed.D. - Psychologist, organizational and behavioral advisor to privately held firms, psychotherapist, coach. Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, creating and teaching group dynamics course for psychiatry residents at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

I've been working in the field of behavioral studies for over 30 years as a clinician, a researcher, a lifelong learner, and occasionally as an author.

As a psychotherapist, I target the things that mean something to my patients: what next after reaching the pinnacle of a successful career, how to create and sustain a relationship that works for each partner as well as the couple and family, where to find the strength and courage to let go and move on, how to raise adolescent daughters who still talk to you when the job's done...

As an organizational advisor, I tackle the people aspect: how a family business can succeed as a business and around the Thanksgiving table, how multiple stakeholders with disparate needs can work together to maximize success the fun way, how to create and implement strategies that serve both individual and business growth, when and how to speak so you're heard and listen so you hear what you wish you didn't have to hear.

As a parent, I try to learn from my kids who are, after all, the experts on their own growing up; I simply work for them, helping them to become the people they are meant to be - their definition. I learn, I write, I learn some more...

And as an author, I write professional articles, chapters in books edited by some of the most renowned experts in the field, and then my favorites: the books and blogs I write that take psychology from the world of research and the therapy office into the real world. I write to take what we know about the human psyche for a test drive: to see how clinical and experimental psychology is useful to real live human beings in the day to day. And, especially, to learn from my readers as I always have from my patients and clients. Because you are my teachers, my best teachers. Always have been... So thank you for reading - and for writing. I've much to learn, and only just begun!

- Marlin