About Dr. Marlies Korsten - Private Practice Psychiatrist in Scottsdale, AZ

After finishing medical school at the University of Bonn (Germany) in 1974, I started my career at the Anatomical Institute as a physician where I taught medical students and performed research in neuroanatomy. Following the completion of my first Ph.D., I became board certified as a psychiatrist in 1981 and received my diploma in cognitive behavioral and insight oriented psychotherapy in 1985. I continued to research the effects of high dosage neuroleptic medications on chronic schizophrenic patients. Subsequently, I gained additional experience in psychiatry at the Bethlehem Royal Hospital in London and returned to Germany to start a private practice. 

I moved to the United States in 1985, where I received additional training in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. After finishing my psychiatric residency at Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix, AZ, I served as the director of outpatient services at the facility for 3 years, where I supervised residents and worked with seriously mentally ill clients.

During my time at Maricopa Medical Center, I pursued an education as a psychoanalyst at the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, where I received a Ph.D. in psychoanalysis.  Afterwards, I served as a consulting psychiatrist and psychoanalyst at the Center for Transitional Neurorehabilitation at St. Joseph's Hospital - Barrow Neurological Institute.  

I have worked in my private practice since 1997. Learn more at MarliesKorsten.com.

Education & Training Overview

• Doctor of Medicine, University of Bonn, Germany (1974)
• Doctor of Philosophy in Neuroanatomy, University of Bonn, Germany (1975)
• Board Certified in Psychiatry (1994)
• Doctor of Philosophy in Psychoanalysis, Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute (1997)

Publications:

"Simultaneous Changes of the Perivascular Area and HIOMT- Activity in the Pineal Organ after Bilateral Adrenalectomy in Rats". Anat.Embryol. 149, 297-305. Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1976

Presentations:

"Treatment Results with Chronic Schizophrenic Patients on High Dosage Antipsychotic Medications"International Conference on Psychiatry and Psychology, Barcelona, Spain, 1979