Theodore Shapiro is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in New York, where he is a professor emeritus in psychiatry and pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College and the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic.
[3] Shapiro is the former director of the division of child psychiatry at Cornell[1] and the former editor of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.
[4] He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1953 and from the Weill Cornell Medical College in 1957.
[5][6] In 1994, when Shapiro stepped down after ten years service as editor of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, he had published nearly 150 research articles and six books.
Cooper[4] writes: "His publications include significant contributions to our understanding of empathy, autism, linguistic structure, symbol formation, and diagnosis, among other topics."