Nadine A. Levinson, D.D.S.

NADINE A. LEVINSON, D.D.S combines her knowledge of dentistry with expertise in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. She maintains a private psychoanalytic and psychotherapy practice in Laguna Niguel, California. She is a psychoanalyst and is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the San Diego Psychoanalytic Institute where she serves as Assistant Director of Education. Additionally, Dr. Levinson is a geographic training analyst at the New Center of Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. She holds an appointment as Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the University of California at Irvine. Complementing a psychiatric approach to dental patients, she consults for and treats patients who have psychological issues related to their dental disorders. She has been interested in female psychology for years and has co-edited the book: Female Psychology: An Annotated Psychoanalytic Bibliography. She is a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, the International Psychoanalytical Association and the American Dental Association. She is one of the original founders and currently serves as co-manager of PEP (Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing, Inc.), a successful electronic psychoanalytic library and database containing all of the essential psychoanalytic journals as well as Freud’s Standard Edition. Dr. Levinson sees adults and adolescents and can provide psychodynamic psychotherapy or psychoanalysis, when indicated.