About Dr. Miller

I completed my Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 2007 at Duquesne University, my residency/doctoral internship at SUNY Stony Brook, and my postdoctoral work at Syracuse University.  

What's a clinical psychologist?

The Ph.D. in clinical psychology is the most advanced degree of academic and practical training in psychological treatment, assessment, and research.  It includes several years of graduate level coursework, hundreds of hours of practical experience before graduation, a full-time residency ("internship") at the end of the Ph.D., and a dissertation (major research project) judged to add new knowledge to the field of psychology. In addition, the New York State license requires postdoctoral experience and supervision, and successful completion of the national Examination for the Professional Practice of Psychology, among other criteria.  

I am Associate Professor and Director of Psychology Training in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at SUNY Upstate Medical University. I am the founder and director of The Center for Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychiatry (CP3). I've been teaching at the university level since 2002, and taught grades 7-12 before that.

I earned my undergraduate degree in philosophy from Bard College, where I focused on 19th and early 20th century continental philosophy (especially the work of Kierkegaard, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Heidegger).  My doctoral work in Clinical Psychology at Duquesne continued to integrate philosophy and psychoanalysis with psychology.  

My research explores the intersection of clinical psychology with the contributions of Jacques Lacan, a 20th century French psychoanalyst, as well as the work of the great existential philosophers such as Soren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Martin Heidegger.