About the Author

Dr. Spinelli is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Her clinical, academic and research activities have concentrated on psychiatric disorders during the female life cycle, pregnancy and the postpartum period. Her research awards by the National Institutes of Mental Health have focused on Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Perinatal Depression (IPT-P). In her Manhattan clinical practice she specializes in psychiatric disorders during pregnancy and the postpartum periods, menstrual cycle and perimenopause. In addition she practices general psychiatry. She has had considerable training and developed expertise in psychopharmacology and psychotherapy through her medical training at Cornell University Medical College, residency training in psychiatry at the Payne Whitney Clinic, the New York Hospital at Cornell, a Post-doctoral Research Fellowship at Columbia and the NYS Psychiatric Institute and a clerkship in perinatal psychiatry at the Maudsley and Bethlem Mother-Infant Postpartum Unit, London, England.