Psychology Consultant James Tyler Carpenter

James Tyler Carpenter, PhD, FAACP, is a Board Certified (Clinical) Licensed Psychologist Provider. He has over 30 years of professional practice to include assessment, treatment, teaching, supervision, consultation, and research.

Dr. Carpenter specializes in psychosis, character disorder, trauma, offending behavior, suicidal patients, personality, forensics, disability, and integrating the full spectrum of temporal and modality specific psychological treatments across inpatient, outpatient, milieu, residential, and correctional settings.


Specific Areas of Expertise:

Addiction Alcohol Abuse Anger Management Antisocial Personality Anxiety Bipolar Disorder Borderline Personality Codependency Coping Skills

Depression Drug Abuse Dual Diagnosis Emotional Disturbance Family Conflict Grief Men's Issues Narcissistic Personality Oppositional Defiance

Peer Relationships Relationship Issues Self Esteem Self-Harming Spirituality Suicidal Ideation Trauma and PTSD Mood Disorders Thinking Disorders

Dr. Carpenter has held academic, research, and teaching appointments at Harvard University, Medical School, and Extension Schools, as well as Boston, Lesley, Roger Williams Universities, Massachusetts School for Professional Psychology, and the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance. He has published, taught, supervised, served as an editorial consultant, and presented on the topics of subliminal stimulation, meditation based psychotherapies, group psychotherapy, integrating techniques, the use of translators in forensic assessments and treatment, group treatment of violent offenders, assessment of suicidal patients, psychopathology, theories of psychotherapy, personality, and the recidivism of released inmates.

In addition to his practice at Metis Psychological Associates, Dr. Carpenter is currently an In-House Medical Consultant for Disability Determination Services, he teaches and consults to clients through CAPA (Chinese American Psychoanalytic Alliance). He is a member of the Forensic Think Tank, PIPATL (Program in Psychiatry and the Law, and participates actively on various listserves, professional organizations, and a scientific advisory board. Dr. Carpenter writes and presents at conferences on his interests within his expertise.

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