Barry Lubetkin

Who is Barry Lubetkin?

Dr Barry Lubetkin is the Director and founder of The Institute For Behavior Therapy in New York City. He is Board certified in both Clinical Psychology and Behavioral Psychology. He is the author of numerous academic and popular articles as well as two popular self-help books: "Bailing Out"and "Why Do I Need You to Love Me in Order to Like Myself". He also has recorded the popular insomnia treatment CD set "Dr. Barry's Sound Asleep." The Institute for Behavior Therapy is the oldest private Cognitive Behavior Therapy center in the United States founded in 1971. It is especially noteworthy that Dr Lubetkin and Dr Steven Fishman boldly opened the Institute in New York City,the center of Psychoanalytic thinking, when Behavior Therapists were seen as "symptom removers", not comprehensive practitioners. Over the last decades, of course, that naiive perspective has radically changed. Many hundreds of Psychiatrists, Psychologists and Social Workers have received training at the Institute and have gone on to become leaders in Behavior Therapy. Over 20,000 patients have received treatment at the Institute.

Lubetkin received his Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Kent State University in 1969 and was a fellow in the National Institute of Mental Health Alcoholism Training Program at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital and an NIMH fellow in Behavior Modification at Stony Brook. He has had faculty positions at Rutgers, Hofstra, Stony Brook, Yeshiva and New York University. Lubetkin has lectured internationally as well as being a popular guest expert on TV shows such as Oprah, Sally, CNN, Fox and others.