Cynthia Baum-Baicker, PhD
Cynthia Baum-Baicker, Ph.D is a Clinical Psychologist in full-time private practice, with offices in Philadelphia and Doylestown, PA. Dr Baum-Baicker began her career at The Philadelphia Geriatric Center (now Abramson Center). Pursuing her interest in social systems, she became Research Clinical Psychologist at the Social Systems Sciences Department/Bush Center of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where she authored the original papers on the health benefits of light and moderate drinking. In the 1980’s she was the Clinical Director of IBM (Philadelphia) and Weightman Advertising Company’s employee assistance programs (EAP) and presented workshops on pre-retirement counseling across the state. Dr Baum-Baicker has taught Continuing Education for both the Philadelphia Society of Clinical Psychologists and the Philadelphia Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, as well as at Temple and Villanova Universities.
She has presented nationally on a number of topics, including clinical gerontology, sibling relationships, and clinical wisdom. She has been a member of the of the Professional Advisory Board of Community Home Health Services of Philadelphia; the Board of Philadelphia Music Makers, the Editorial Board of The Gerontologist; and Chair of Mental Health for the Ethics Network of the Delaware Valley Region. Dr Baum-Baicker earned a B.A. in psychology from Washington University in St Louis and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Temple University. She trained in psychoanalysis with the Philadelphia branch of The American Academy of Psychoanalysis and is also a graduate of the Washington Psychoanalytic Center’s New Directions Program.
Presently, Dr Baum-Baicker is Director of the Wisdom Project for the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association (APA) and sits on the Board of the Division’s Section on Couple and Family Therapy, where she chairs the Public Policy and Liaison Committee. She sits on the Board of Directors of the Thomas Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation where she co-chairs the Grants Committee. Dr Baum-Baicker is on the Advisory Board of the Scattergood Program for the Applied Ethics of Behavioral Health at the Center for Bioethics at The University of Pennsylvania. She is a member in good standing of The American Psychological Association, The Philadelphia Society of Clinical Psychologists, and The Philadelphia Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, where she serves as a Mentor. Dr Baum-Baicker maintains an affiliation with Pennsylvania Hospital, Department of Psychiatry.