About
Bruce Alan Kehr, M.D.
Author and National Award-Winning Psychiatrist
Bruce Alan Kehr, M.D. has served as Founder and President of Potomac Psychiatry (www.PotomacPsychiatry.com) since 1981. Washingtonian Magazine awarded him their “Top Doctor” designation from 2012 to 2017. In 2016 and 2017 it named Potomac Psychiatry “The Face of Psychiatry” in their “Faces of Washington” issue. Dr. Kehr serves on the Board of the Institute on Aging of the University of Pennsylvania, and served as its Chairman from 2006 to 2009. The readers and editors of PharmaVOICE selected him in 2007 as one of the “100 Most Inspiring and Influential Leaders in the Life Sciences Industry.”
Dr. Kehr received training in psychiatry at Tufts New England Medical Center, where he was Chief Resident; in neuropsychiatry at the VA Boston Healthcare System – Jamaica Plain; and in psychoanalysis at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. He practices psychiatry and psychotherapy using “The Biopsychosocial Model” to treat the “Whole Person,” by understanding each individual’s unique genetic, biological, psychological, social, and life-stage characteristics.
He feels that the practice of psychiatry is both “a privilege, and a calling.” His book, Becoming Whole: A Healing Companion to Ease Emotional Pain and Find Self-Love, is the culmination of his years of experience treating thousands of patients. By systematically teaching the basic principles of psychiatry to enable people to help themselves and those they love, and powerfully illustrated by stories of patients in treatment, Becoming Whole, is devoted to helping:
- Anyone suffering from emotional distress that just won’t go away
- Patients in psychotherapy who are not getting better
- Psychotherapists who would like to better understand the underlying biological basis of the symptoms experienced by their clients
- Patients in treatment with a psychiatrist who have not fully recovered
Read what reviewers who’ve previewed the book have to say, by clicking here
Dr. Kehr lives in Potomac, Maryland, with his wife, Barbara, a psychotherapist. They have two daughters: Melanie, an immigration attorney who advocates for asylum on behalf of refugees fleeing domestic violence and child abuse, and Lisa, a psychiatric nurse practitioner graduate student.
About Potomac Psychiatry
Contact
5920 Hubbard Drive
Rockville, MD 20852
Ph: 301.984.9791
Fx: 301.816.0907
info@potomacpsychiatry.com
www.potomacpsychiatry.com
Office Hours
Monday-Friday
9:00am-5:00pm
Since 1981, Potomac Psychiatry has provided highly personalized and responsive psychiatric care to all age groups. Potomac Psychiatry offers specialized services in psychotherapy for senior executives; child and adolescent psychiatry; geriatric psychiatry; individual, family, and couples therapy; and expert witness evaluations and testimony. Potomac Psychiatry’s comprehensive, thoughtful, and sophisticated approach to understanding and solving emotional problems can help you and your loved ones.
Our Caregiving Partners:
To Write Love on Her Arms
“To Write Love on Her Arms is a nonprofit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury, and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire, and invest directly into treatment and recovery.”
Caring Village
“We created Caring Village because we understand first-hand how difficult it can be both emotionally and physically to provide care for an aging loved one. We’re focused on improving the quality of life for caregivers, so they don’t have to carry the burden alone – all the time. We’ve taken our shared experiences with caregiving to deliver the most comprehensive set of resources and an innovative caregiving app for families to provide the best care for their loved ones.”
