Following completion of his doctorate in clinical psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology – L.A., he spent five years training at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health in New York. In 1994 John Rathauser began training with Habib Davanloo, M.D. in Montreal, Canada, spending eight years in Dr. Davanloo’s Core Training Group. This training is ongoing, with annual week-long metapsychology conferences, which Dr. Davanloo continues to hold in Montreal. John Rathauser works in private practice as well as providing presentations on ISTDP nationally and internationally and training in ISTDP to mental health practitioners.