Amy Banks, M.D.

Director of Advanced Training at the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute

In addition to her work at JBMTI, Amy is also an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. After graduating magna cum laude from Tufts University she earned her medical degree at Georgetown University and her psychiatric training at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, a Harvard residency program. Amy was the psychiatrist-in- charge of The Women’s Treatment Program, a residential and day treatment program at Mclean Hospital based on relational-cultural theory; she was the team psychiatrist for the Victims of Violence Program at Cambridge Hospital, and Medical Director for Mental Health at the Fenway Community Health Center in Boston, MA. Over the last ten years at the JBMTI, Amy has been integrating emerging neuroscience information with relational-cultural theory. She has spoken throughout the country on “The Neurobiology of Relationship” and has an ongoing passion to spread the message that we are “hard-wired for connection”.

Amy co-edited The Complete Guide to Mental Health for Women published by Beacon Press in 2004. She has written numerous articles on the treatment of childhood trauma including a popular manual “PTSD, Relationships and Brain Chemistry, published as a Project report at the Stone Center, Wellesley College. She has been a co-investigator of the “National Lesbian Family Study, a 20+ year longitudinal study (led by principle investigator Nanette Gartrell MD) and has co-authored numerous journal articles describing the findings. Most recently, Amy has been exploring the field of energy psychology, integrating unified field theory into an understanding of how and why connections heal. Amy has a private practice in Lexington, MA specializing in “relational psychopharmacology” and the therapy and pharmacology of traumatized individuals.

Books Amy would recommend:

• The Neuroscience of Human Relationships by Louis Cozolino
• The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge
• Women’s Growth in Connection by Judy Jordan et al.
• The Healing Connection by Irene Stiver and Jean Baker Miller
• How Connections Heal by Wendy Rosen and Maureen Walker

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Reflections and perspectives from Amy Banks, M.D., JBMTI director of advanced training

“I am so glad you are offering the webinars. Twenty years ago I went to the Wednesday evening Stone Center Colloquia and loved them. But then I moved to Texas and had kids so I couldn’t travel. These allow me to feel a part of it again.”  

These words were shared with me last October by a participant who attended the pilot webinar, “I Feel Your Pain,” offered by the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute (JBMTI) at the Wellesley Centers for Women. This webinar was part of a new lecture series, The Neurobiology of Connection. Clinical trainings are not new for the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute. We have been teaching Relational-Cultural Theory to mental health providers, educators, and social policy advocates throughout the United States and abroad for almost 30 years.

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Dates:  August 25, 2009 -- REGISTRATION IS FULL FOR THE AUGUST 25th WEBINAR. THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST.
Presenter: Amy Banks M.D.
Location:  Wellesley, MA

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Date (SUBJECT TO CHANGE):  April 14, 2010 • 12:00 - 1:15pm Eastern Standard Time
Presenter: Amy Banks M.D.
Location:  Online

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