Bio
Daniel Laor is a psychiatrist in private practice on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where he treats children, adolescents, and adults.
He completed his residency in psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, training at Bellevue Hospital and the Manhattan VA, and is a fellow in child and adolescent psychiatry at Columbia University and NewYork-Presbyterian. He is a candidate at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and a fellow of the International Psychoanalytical Association's Research Training Program.
His research explores how children and parents come to understand themselves and one another. He leads a study of mentalization-based treatment for autistic children, supported by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the National Institutes of Health.
He received his medical degree from SUNY Downstate, where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha. Before medicine he trained as a pianist at Mannes College of Music.
Practice
Dr. Laor sees children, adolescents, and adults for psychotherapy and medication management. His approach is psychodynamic, attending to how past experience and present relationships shape feeling and behavior, and he draws on mentalization-based, cognitive behavioral, and dialectical behavior therapies where they help.
When medication is useful, he prescribes and follows it himself, so that therapy and medication form one treatment. In work with children, parents take part throughout.
Sessions are held in person on West 86th Street and by telehealth within New York State.
- Evaluation
- Psychotherapy
- Medication management
- Parent consultation
- Psychoanalysis
Selected Publications
- 2025Therapeutic relationship in group cognitive behavior therapy, yoga, and stress education for generalized anxiety disorder. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration.
- 2025The impact of patient suicide on trainees and psychiatrists. Panel, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
- 2024Psychiatric diagnostic criteria: from RDC to DSM to beyond, what have we learned? Psychiatric Annals.
- 2019Anhedonia as a clinical correlate of inflammation in adolescents across psychiatric conditions. World Journal of Biological Psychiatry.