Christine B.L. Adams MD

Christine B. L. Adams, MD is a child and adult psychiatrist in private practice for 40 years. During her career, she has worked as a forensic child psychiatrist and in academic and community mental health settings. She has also worked for the Social Security Administration and for the Department of Defense. She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Life Member of the American Psychiatric Association.

Dr. Adams has published articles and contributed to textbooks on topics of child-rearing difficulties, child sexual abuse, frontal lobe brain pathology, women’s sexual development, childhood aphasia, child custody disputes and parent-child alienations, as well as mental health stigma.

She has co-authored with her mentor, Homer B. Martin, MD "Living on Automatic: How Emotional Conditioning Shapes Our Lives and Relationships." This book provides a groundbreaking new concept of personalities and relationships based on the authors' combined 80 years of psychotherapy work with people of all ages.