He received a Doctor of Philosophy in Social Welfare from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and a Master of Social Work degree from Columbia University. His writings have appeared in Fromm Forum, Social Work Perspectives, Critical and Radical Social Work, The Journal of Psychohistory, and the Columbia Social Work Review. He has presented at the annual conferences of the International Psychoanalytical Association, and the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work, among others. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Metropolitan College of New York, and was previously an Adjunct Lecturer in Clinical Practice at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College of the City University of New York.