Andrew J. Gerber

Dr. Gerber is President and Medical Director of Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan, Connecticut.

Dr. Gerber’s distinguished career combines his work as a clinician, scholar, research scientist and executive. He completed his medical and psychiatric training at Harvard Medical School, Cambridge Hospital and Weill Cornell and Columbia medical schools and his psychoanalytic training at Columbia. Dr. Gerber completed a PhD in psychology at the Anna Freud Centre and University College London where he did advanced work in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy in young adults.

Prior to joining Silver Hill, Dr. Gerber was medical director and CEO of the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Among his many affiliations, Dr. Gerber has served as associate clinical professor in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center and as associate clinical professor at the Child Study Center, Yale University. He is the former co-director of the Sackler Parent-Infant Program at Columbia University, former director of the MRI Research Program at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and former director of research at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.

Dr. Gerber’s commitment to scholarship is evidenced by the number of major presentations and publications he has authored or co-authored over the course of his career. His research on the intersection of neuroscience and psychoanalysis is at the cutting edge of our understanding of the neurobiological effect of psychotherapeutic interventions.

He has published and received grants in the areas of developmental psychopathology, attachment, and functional neuroimaging of dynamic processes, including social cognition and transference. He has been involved in planning and teaching psychoanalytic research as head of the Science Department at the American Psychoanalytic Association and chair of the Committee on Scientific Activities, secretary of the Psychoanalytic Psychodynamic Research Society, and a member of the psychotherapy research committee of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Dr. Gerber is married to Andrea Gerber, PhD, who is a clinical psychologist. They have two daughters, Samantha and Lila.