Richard Gottlieb, M.D., Psy.D.
- Bachelor of Science in Psychology
- Medical Doctor
- Board Certified Psychiatrist
- Psychoanalyst
My name is Dr. Richard Gottlieb. I am a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Scottsdale, Arizona, where I have practiced since 1986. I graduated Arizona State University Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Psychology in 1978, the University of Arizona College of Medicine with
a Medical Degree (MD) in 1982, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center with an Internship and Residency in Psychiatry in 1986, and the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute with a Doctor of Psychology in Psychoanalysis (PsyD) in 2005. I am a board member of The American Psychoanalytic Association, a member and Distinguished Fellow of The American Psychiatric Association, and a board member and the current President of the Southwest Psychoanalytic Society.
I look forward to helping you meet all your treatment needs. If you have found this website, you are likely searching for a qualified clinician to help you resolve, or at least cope with some kind of emotional, mental, or behavioral problem. Please rest assured that I will do everything I can to be helpful. Should you have a problem that requires expertise that I don’t have, I will also do my best to help you find another clinician who may be able to help you. Currently, the only insurance plan that I accept is Aetna, but I am also available to treat you on a self-pay basis.
In the pages that follow, you will find answers to many of your questions about the most common treatment options that are available to treat depression, anxiety, mood swings, difficulty sustaining attention, compulsive behavior, relationship problems, substance abuse, and many other emotional and mental health problems. While I hope this information proves useful to you, a comprehensive psychiatric evaluation is often necessary to individualize treatment because we are all different. Our unique genetics, physiology, and life experiences make our problems best treated with a personalized treatment plan.
Many patients suffering from psychiatric disorders seek help from their primary care and/or other physicians. Often these doctors can stabilize symptoms with common psychiatric medications. Sometimes, however, a more sophisticated evaluation and treatment plan developed by a psychiatrist is necessary. Psychiatrists have the training and experience to manage difficult-to-treat disorders with complex medication combinations that other physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants usually lack. Sometimes medication alone is insufficient to treat psychiatric disorders, and optimally should be used in combination with psychotherapy. Again, psychiatrists have training in psychotherapy that other clinicians usually don’t. Sometimes medication is not even indicated, or worse, delays effective psychotherapeutic treatment. A good evaluation by a psychiatrist can prevent costly and painful delays in getting relief from these symptoms and, when possible, to cure underlying psychological problems that are generating them. That is when seeing someone like me can be especially helpful.
Please call my office at 480-477-7793 during usual office hours if you wish to schedule an initial evaluation. You will be greeted by a receptionist who will transfer your call to my office manager’s extension. The receptionist answers telephone calls for the entire office complex, and so you will not be able to leave messages with her. You will, however, be able to speak with my office manager or, if she is on another call, you can leave a voicemail on her extension. One of us will return your call as soon as
possible.
Please leave in your voicemail dates and times when it will be easiest to reach you. On evenings and weekends, my phone is forwarded to my answering service, who will either call me or the doctor on call for me – for urgent calls only (i.e., serious medication side effects) that can’t wait until the following business day. If you are having a life-threatening emergency, you should hang up and dial 911, rather than have me paged, as failing to do so could risk a dangerous delay in you getting help from paramedics. After hours, you will not be able to leave routine messages with my answering service. Please call back during usual office hours to leave scheduling and billing questions, or to report non-urgent medication side effects.
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