![Psychiatrist talking to patient.](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/node/3865/3x2/psychiatry_161201_071_3x2.jpg)
Psychiatrist William Breitbart directs the Psychotherapy Laboratory at MSK.
William Breitbart, MD, Director
This group will mount a series of trials of individual, group, couple, and family therapy, as well as a group of studies involving microdissection of the aspects of therapy that prove therapeutic. A dedicated laboratory has been established with video-recording capacity in two individual psychotherapy rooms and two group and family therapy rooms. This enables the fidelity of any intervention to be studied to be certain that a model under study is properly and faithfully applied.
Current studies of meaning-centered psychotherapy led by Dr. Breitbart and trials of family therapy led by Dr. Kissane are well underway. Other studies include cognitive-behavioral treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder in bone marrow transplant survivors, maternal coping with bone marrow transplantation, and the development and evaluation of family problem-solving and multiple family groups.
Faculty Members
![William S. Breitbart, MD](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/85/image/breitbart-william-1x1.jpg?h=fbf7a813)
Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Jimmie C. Holland Chair
![Yesne Alici, MD](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/18179/image/alici-yesne-1x1.jpg?h=fbf7a813)
Vice Chair, Clinical Operations, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Clinical Ethics Consultant, Ethics Committee, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
![Allison J. Applebaum, PhD](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/20063/image/allison-applebaum-1x1.jpg?h=fbf7a813)
Founding Director, Caregivers Clinic, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
![Matthew Doolittle](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/173/1x1/doolittle-matthew_200813_07_rt_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
![Memorial Sloan Kettering psychiatrist Julia Kearney](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/323/1x1/kearney_julia_in-situ_horizontal_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Associate Attending Psychiatrist
![Memorial Sloan Kettering psychologist Wendy Lichtenthal](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/391/1x1/lichtenthal_180221_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Clinical Psychologist
![MSK psychologist Christian Nelson](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/454/1x1/nelson_170913_13_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Chief, Psychiatry Service
![Memorial Sloan Kettering child psychologist Stephen Sands](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/131935/1x1/sands_stephen_in-situ_original-1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Director, Pediatric Neuropsychology
![Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center psychologist Talia I. Zaider](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/682/1x1/zaider_190513_24_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)