Atlanta Medical Psychology

Atlanta Psychologist, Dr. David B. Adams, is Board Certified in Clinical Psychology (ABPP) and specializes in the treatment of pain, mood, anxiety, sexual, psychosomatic and somatoform disorders in adults.

In addition to his private Atlanta practice, Dr. Adams consults nationally to physicians, nurses, attorneys, employers, insurers, police departments, school systems, risk-management organizations and rehabilitations centers regarding the psychological factors involved in chronic pain, work-related injury, disability, depression, anxiety and sexual dysfunction. Dr. Adams biography and curriculum vitae are available as downloads.

He is Fellow of the American Academy of Clinical Psychology, a Fellow of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and it's Division of Psychologists in Independent Practice, Division of Psychotherapy; Society of Clinical Psychology, as well as the American Academy of Pain Management and the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine.

Dr. Adams is a Distinguished Practitioner of the National Academy of Practice in Psychology, a member of the American Psychosomatic Society, the Association of Medicine and Psychiatry, a platinum member of the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology and holds a Certificate of Professional Qualifications from the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards.

He is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati, Xavier University, and holds two degrees from the University of Alabama with a postdoctoral fellowship from the Institute of Clinical Training of the Devereux Foundation (Philadelphia).

Dr. Adams has served on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Psychology, Psychotherapy Bulletin, International Journal of Medical Psychotherapy, and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice and Training and for many years was a medical psychotherapy-contributing editor to the Psychotherapy Bulletin. Dr. Adams is the author of greater than sixty articles on the impact of psychological functioning upon claims of disability, including the 1991 textbook chapter on Diversification of Clinical Practice, the 1992 centennial article on Psychotherapy in the Medical & Surgical Arenas, and two 1997 orthopedic textbook chapters in Soft Tissue Injuries (Windsor & Lox, Eds.) regarding chronic pain and psychopharmacology.

Since 1988, he has presented seminars and regional workshops to physicians, nurse case managers, attorneys, employers and insurers addressing the psychological aspects of physical disease and injury.