Blair Bunting, MD is a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in McLean, VA, who serves as a clinical psychotherapy supervisor for Georgetown CAP fellows. He graduated Dartmouth Medical School and trained in adult and child psychiatry at the University of Virginia, and in psychoanalysis at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. Clinical experience includes directing and providing intensive long-term (2 to 4 years) residential treatment of boys struggling with various developmental disorders (attachment trauma, atypical and complex development, autism spectrum, bipolar, organic, prodromal conditions), as well as providing intensive psychotherapy and medication management and psychoanalysis for outpatients aged 4 and older. His theoretical interests and orientation have evolved towards an intersubjective/relational approach informed by attachment theory, mentalization theory, infant observation and research, and more recent findings in the fields of neurobiology and neuropsychoanalysis. Findings in these fields clarify, strengthen and elaborate upon classical psychoanalytic theory, and give guidance towards more effective treatment. In supervision, Dr. Bunting takes a collaborative approach, and is interested in working supportively with fellows as they develop child psychiatric and psychotherapeutic skills.
Dr, Blair Bunting