Robert Michels (born 1936) is a Professor of Medicine and of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and a training and supervising psychoanalyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.
[1] After a residency and psychoanalytic training at Columbia, Michels completed a fellowship at the National Institutes of Health.
Michels was named chairman of Cornell's psychiatry department in 1974.
He served seventeen years as chairman at the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic and served as Dean of Cornell's medical school from 1991 to 1996.
His best known work is The Psychiatric Interview in Clinical Practice, which was written with Roger MacKinnon and published in 1971.