His work focuses on advancing pluralistic, person and people-centered approaches to psychiatric assessment, care and treatment.

Simultaneously, he started working as an inpatient unit chief at the New York Hospital - Westchester Division.

In 2005, he left Case Western and joined the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa as clinical professor of psychiatry.

[11] Schwartz's work, anchored in phenomenology, has focused on advancing pluralistic, person and people-centered approaches to psychiatric assessment, care and treatment.

In order to gain a fuller understanding, the psychiatrist must draw on other perspectives, also one-sided and limited.