Charles L. Whitfield, MD

Charles L. Whitfield, MD, is a physician, psychotherapist, author, and internationally recognized expert on mental illness, behavioral problems, and recovery from addiction and trauma. He was on the faculty of the Rutgers University Summer Institute of Alcohol and Drug Studies from 1978 through 2003, and has been in private practice of addiction medicine and psychotherapy since 1976. He has also been a consultant and collaborator at the CDC in Atlanta since 1998. He has been voted by his peers as one of the Best Doctors in America every year since 1993. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia, and is in private practice with his wife, author and therapist, Barbara Harris Whitfield.