Dr. Amador is an internationally
sought-after speaker, clinical
psychologist, professor at
Columbia University, Teachers
College, in New York City, the
Founder and Director of the
LEAP Institute and author of
eight books including the national
best seller “I’m Not Sick, I Don’t
Need Help!”

Dr. Amador’s expertise has made him a regular contributor to the Today Show and a featured guest on ABC Good Morning America, Prime Time Live, CBS This Morning, NBC Nightly News, 60 Minutes, CNN, Dateline, ABC’s World News Tonight, Fox News, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and many others.

Dr. Amador has been a consultant to numerous companies and government agencies including the National Institute of Health.

His forensic cases include the Unabomber, PFC Lynndie England, Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping, and Zacarias Moussaoui trials. Dr. Amador has over 25 years experience working with adults, families, and couples. He lives in New York.
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Previously, Dr. Amador was a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University, College of Physicians & Surgeons; on the Board of Directors of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI); Director of Research at NAMI; and the Director of Psychology at the New York State Psychiatric Institute.

In addition to his books Dr. Amador has published over 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers, and many other publications that have been translated into more than 20 languages.

Dr. Amador was co-chair of the last text revision of the Schizophrenia and related disorders section of the DSM IV-TR (often referred to as the “Psychiatrists’ Bible”).
  
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2009
10/16 – Itasca, Illinois

10/14 - New Britain, Connecticut

10/10 – Albany, New York

09/25 – Valencia, Spain

09/16 – Indianapolis, Indiana

06/20 – New York, New York (LEAP Training — Lieber Clinic)

06/05 – Lisbon, Portugal

06/01 – New York, New York (Manhattan Psychiatric Center)

05/29 – Madison, Wisconsin

09/16/09 - Indianapolis, Indiana

05/29/09 - Madison, Wisconsin

04/23-24/09 - Minneapolis, Minnesota

03/19-20/09 - Budapest, Hungary

02/19/09 - LEAP Training, New York City, Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute

02/01/09-02/07/09 - United Kingdom

TBA - President Carter Center. Atlanta, Georgia

2008

11/04/08 - Atlanta, Georgia CIT Conference 

10/23/08 - Marseille, France

10/21/08 - Paris, France

10/17/08 - Sevilla, Spain

Recent events:

10/09/08 - Pueblo, Colorado

10/07/08 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

09/10/08 -  Auckland, New Zealand

09/09/08 - Hamilton, New Zealand

09/08/08 - Dunedin, New Zealand

09/06/08 - Wellington, New Zealand
Events
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