About Me

Dr. Max Craig Kusovitsky DSW, LCSW, ADV CASAC II, is a psychoanalyst and Doctor of Clinical Social Work. Max completed his doctoral research at New York University as well as his Master’s degree at Yeshiva University, simultaneous to his license in substance-abuse treatment. Dr. Kusovitsky currently works as a (neuro)psychoanalyst in private practice.

Since beginning his formal, psychoanalytic training at the Karen Horney Clinic in 2016, Max has completed his two-year, psychodynamic certificate fellowship. To date, Max has also completed eight years of post-grad/post-doc, psychoanalytic training at various psychotherapeutic institutions including The American Institute for Psychoanalysis.

Dr. Kusovitsky’s practice focuses upon wholehearted, psychoanalytic treatment, evangelizing the therapeutic benefits to understanding unconscious forces within the lived experience of subjective mental life.

His current research draws from the interdisciplinary domain of neuro-psychoanalysis. In particular, how affective neuroscience and the free energy principle inform and influence psychoanalytic technique. It is these integrative arenas that substantiate the subjective experience of consciousness itself, as well as its corollaries to the psychoanalytic principles underpinning perception.

This comprehensive perspective operates in service of developing an unified sense of self for the patient, where interior experience invariably has MEANING, FUNCTION, explanatory VALUE and causal POWER. It is the emphasis on liberating a strangled volition and compromised agency that benefits patients and students alike. Dr. Kusovitsky, in accordance, works to mobilize improvements in post-graduate/post-doctoral training and psychotherapeutic treatment. Simply put: our interior lives are meaningful and powerful.

Max currently teaches and supervises in this technique, highlighting the leading edge of psychoanalytic and phenomenological research and its application in the treatment room.

When not on or near the proverbial treatment couch, Max can be found on his more characteristic soapbox, preaching grandiloquent gospel at stilted listeners on Twitter or podcasts. Dr. Kusovitsky remains a patient himself, attending psychoanalysis 3x times per week in service of clinical efficacy and constructive, personal work.

Max’s affiliations and memberships include: NPSA - The Neuropsychoanalysis Association, AAPCSW - American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work, DIVISION 39, APA - American Psychological Association, Psychoanalysis Division, APsaA - American Psychoanalytic Association, NASW - National Association of Social Work and the PsiAN - Psychotherapy Action Network.

Max’s licenses include: DSW - Doctor of Clinical Social Work, LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker and ADV CASAC II - Advanced Credentialed Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor