Donald Ross, M.D.

Don Ross, M.D., currently is in private practice in Austin, Texas, after a distinguished career at Sheppard Pratt Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. For many years, he was the medical director and senior psychiatrist at The Retreat at Sheppard Pratt, a residential program designed on psychodynamic principles for patients struggling with complex problems. He also taught seminars and supervised psychotherapy for psychiatry residents in the University of Maryland-Sheppard Pratt Psychiatry Residency Training Program. He is a supervising and training analyst on the faculty of the Washington-Baltimore Psychoanalytic Institute, where he continues to teach seminars and supervise candidates via Zoom. In recent years, he has taught seminars that bridge theory and practice from a variety of perspectives, including modern conflict theory, Kohut’s self-psychology, and the works of Hans Loewald and Leo Rangell. He has a longstanding interest in the interface of psychoanalysis with literature and film. He most recently co-authored a paper entitled, “The Environmental Crisis and the film First Reformed: Paths to Paralysis and Change,” published in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis (2022).