Dr. Busch is a clinical professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and a faculty member of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.  His writing and research have focused on the links between psychoanalysis and psychiatry, including psychodynamic approaches to specific disorders, psychoanalytic research, and psychoanalysis and medication.  He has co-authored 5 books on the psychoanalytic approaches to specific disorders, including Manual of Panic Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Psychodynamic Treatment of Depression (second edition), Psychodynamic Approaches to the Adolescent with Panic Disorder, and Panic Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, eXtended Range, and Trauma Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.  He is the sole author of Psychodynamic Approaches to Behavioral Change and Problem-Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.  Additionally, he co-authored a book on Psychotherapy and Medication: The Challenge of Integration.  He has written on integrating biological and psychological/emotional models for panic disorder and trauma. 

     He has been involved in research on panic focused psychodynamic psychotherapy, and more recently on psychodynamic treatment of PTSD.  His efforts have included the development of treatments, training of therapists and treatment of patients in several studies.  These studies have led to the first psychodynamic treatment of a DSM anxiety disorders to demonstrate efficacy, panic focused psychodynamic psychotherapy.   He is currently involved in the development of the manual and training and supervision of practitioners in a study of psychodynamic treatment of trauma at the Veterans Administration New York Harbor Healthcare System .

     Dr. Busch’s activities include a wide range of teaching.  He is the co-chair of and instructor in the Fourth Year Theory course at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research on “Contemporary Issues in Psychoanalytic Theory: Brain, Body and Mind.”  He teaches psychodynamic treatment of depression to candidates at the Center in the psychopathology course.  Dr. Busch teaches residents at Weill Cornell, NYU and Creedmore, and psychoanalytic candidates at Columbia and the New York Psychoanalytic Institute about psychodynamic approaches to panic, anxiety and depression.  In addition, he teaches courses in Psychotherapy section of the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center on integrating psychodynamic approaches and medication.  Dr. Busch also lectures internationally.