Dr. Alan Felix is the Medical Director of Project Reachout, a homeless outreach program of Goddard-Riverside Community Center, and a Clinical Consultant for Columbia University’s Critical Time Intervention project. Dr. Felix has a long history of working with homeless and mentally ill populations, and continues to practice psychiatry with homeless adults.

Areas of expertise
homelessness; schizophrenia; violence and trauma

Recent publications

Felix A, Wine P.  From the couch to the street: applications of psychoanalysis to work with individuals who are homeless and mentally ill.  Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 2001, 3:17-32.

Felix A, Barber C, Lesser M.  Serving paroled offenders who are homeless and mentally ill: a collaboration between the criminal justice and mental health systems.  In Landsberg G and Smiley A (eds).  Forensic Mental Health: Working with offenders with Mental Illness.  Civic Research Institute, Inc. NY, 2001, 11, 1-11.

Felix A.  Life without walls: violence and trauma among the homeless.  In Sklarew B, Twemlow S, and Wilkinson S (eds).  Analysts in the Trenches: Streets, Schools, and War Zones.  Analytic Press, Hillsdale, NJ, 2004, 23-43.