About Dr. Klee

An Autobiographical Sketch
I am a licensed psychologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Professional Psychology at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, where I teach in the doctoral program in clinical psychology.

From 1975 until 1987 I engaged in a wide array of professional activities. I began as a marriage and family therapist, developed a specialization in treating addictions, served as a researcher and principal investigator on a large multi-year grant from the National Institute of Drug Abuse, as well as on numerous state and foundation funded grants for evaluating effective means of substance abuse prevention and early intervention. In 1981, I began a private practice that expanded to include eight other clinicians.

In 1987, Chestnut Hill College invited me to help them establish a master’s degree program in counseling psychology. I sold the group practice and focused most of my attention on developing the master’s program at Chestnut Hill. The success of that program led to the development of a Psy.D. program in clinical psychology grounded in a blend of psychodynamic and systems theories. Today our doctoral program is accredited by the American Psychological Association.

Currently, I teach Theories of Personality, Historical and Modern Approaches to Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Professional Practice Issues, Advanced Therapeutic Techniques, Ethics, and Social Bases of Behavior.

In addition to my academic work, I maintain a private practice in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania where I specialize in the treatment of individual adults, couples and families, other clinicians, personality disorders, and addictions. My approach to psychotherapy is based on an Eight Stage Model of object relations therapy I developed over the past 30 years. Visit my Object Relations Theory and Therapy website for more information

My primary interest today is researching the work of Michael Balint, a Hungarian physician and psychoanalyst who emigrated from Hungary to Britain where he eventually worked at the Tavistock Clinic in London, alongside of other object relations theorists and therapists including Winnicott, Bion, Bowlby and Klein. In addition to his work as a psychoanalyst, Balint developed a method of training primary care physicians to be more empathic with their patients through what have come to be known as “Balint groups.” Over 50% of family medicine training programs in the United States use Balint groups in training second and third year residents. Balint groups are also used in most European countries as well as Australia in their physician training programs. My interest is in bringing Balint groups to the training of psychologists and other mental health practitioners. Click here for more information on my research and work on Michael Balint.




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