Michael Escamilla, MD is a Professor of Psychiatry and Department Chair at UTRGV’s School of Medicine. He is board certified in Psychiatry and is also a Jungian Analyst (member of the International Association of Analytical Psychology). He completed his undergraduate degree at Harvard, his M.D. at UT Southwestern, and his Psychiatry training at the University of California at San Francisco. He was an American Psychiatric Association Fellow in Psychiatric Genetics, also at UCSF, and has conducted seminal studies in the genetics of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia in Latino populations, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. He has also worked to teach Recovery oriented psychiatric practice across the state of Texas. Dr. Escamilla completed his training in Analytical Psychology at the C.G. Jung Institute of Zurich. He has published over 100 journal articles and is the author of the book Bleuler, Jung and the Creation of the Schizophrenias (2016, Daimon Verlag publisher). His clinical treatment areas are analytical psychology, Jungian psychotherapy, and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders.