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Jay H Bonnar, MD
Psychiatry
Mass General Brigham
Highlights
Age Groups Seen
- Adults
- Geriatrics
Languages
- English
Gender
MaleAbout Jay H Bonnar
Jay Bonnar, MD, began his career as an inpatient psychiatrist at The Cambridge Hospital. He came to the Short Term Unit at McLean in 1996. He worked for a decade with the outpatient personality disorder service, where he developed a focus on individual and group psychotherapy, and he began training at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. He became an attending psychotherapist at the Pavilion in 2014.
Dr. Bonnar is interested in the developmental function of self-criticism, its relationship to ‘being good’ and the enduring adult impacts on sense of self, judgment, relationships, accomplishment, and life satisfaction.
Dr. Bonnar is interested in the developmental function of self-criticism, its relationship to ‘being good’ and the enduring adult impacts on sense of self, judgment, relationships, accomplishment, and life satisfaction.
Expertise
Education
- Residency: Cambridge Health Alliance, 1995
- Internship: Cambridge Health Alliance, Psychiatry, 1992
- Medical Education: Harvard Medical School, Doctor of Medicine, 1991