Dr. Joe Amato

Dr. Joe Amato has a diverse academic and professional background. His education has included a BA degree in Philosophy, MA, degrees in Psychology and Theology from Catholic University and New York University, respectively; and his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from NYU. He was a Roman Catholic Priest for 11 1/2 years from 1980 to 1991. His interests include psychodynamic psychology, including psychoanalysis, and its contemporary revisions, child and adolescent development, and psychopathology. Health Psychology and the Mind-Body connection is also an area of expertise and research interest. He has been a staff psychologist within the Department of Psychiatry of Stamford Hospital since 1992.

Dr. Amato has taught Clinical Assessment in the Department of Applied Psychology at NYU for a number of years and has been a clinical supervisor for doctoral programs in psychology of Antioch Graduate School, Adelphi, Fordham, Pace, NYU and Yeshiva Universities. Dr. Amato lectures for Medical Students and Medical Residents at The Stamford Hospital as part of his appointment as an Instructor of Medical Psychology in Psychiatry at Columbia Universality's College of Physicians and Surgeons. At UCONN-Stamford, Dr. Amato teaches PSY 133 and The Study of Personality (PSY 243) regularly. He has also teaches Introduction to Counseling (HDFS 266) for the College of Human Development and Family Studies. .

For recreation and stress relief he lifts weights and currently holds a USA Boxing masters division amateur license. Amato competes locally.