Timothy Rayner, M.D.

Dr. Rayner graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1987, and from Tulane University School of Medicine, with M.D. and MPH degrees in 1991. Between internship and psychiatry residency, both at Naval Medical Center San Diego, he returned to the Naval Academy as the Flight Surgeon. Following residency, he entered psychoanalytic training at the San Diego Psychoanalytic Center, graduating in 2003, while on deployment in Operation Iraqi Freedom, where he led a Combat Stress Platoon. In 2004 Dr. Rayner left the Navy and set up a private practice in San Diego specializizing in psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.

He served for over 12 years on both the Board of Directors and the Education Committee of SDPC, where he was co-Director of Education for 6 years and has taught classes every year. Meanwhile, he became involved in the leadership of the American Psychoanalytic Association on both the Executive Council (Board of Directors) and the Board on Professional Standards. In 2018, he became the first Lead Director on the Board of Directors of APsaA, and with that position, Chair of the Governance Committee. He chaired the Expanded Membership Task Force, which produced a Bylaws Amendment which was approved by a supermajority of the Membership of APsaA in February 2022. He has now returned to be more involved locally as President of SDPC.