Drexel University College of Medicine

Dr. Jeffrey Bedrick is board certified in general psychiatry and addiction psychiatry.

Awards and Honors

• Named "Top Doctor" by Philadelphia magazine (2013)

In the News

• "Drexel Physicians Named "Top Docs" by Philadelphia Magazine"
  (May 2, 2013)

Selected Publications

"Personality Pathology and Drinking in Young Men at High and Low Familial Risk for Alcoholism"
Alterman A, Bedrick J, Cacciola J, Rutherford M, Searles J, McKay J, Cook T
Journal of Studies on Alcohol 5:495-502 (1998)

"Dual Diagnosis"
Woody GE, McLellan AT, Bedrick J
Annual Review of Psychiatry, Volume 14, American Psychiatric Press, Washington, DC (1995)

"Reducing Waiting Time for Substance Abuse Treatment Does Not Reduce Attrition"
Alterman A, Bedrick J, Howden D, Maany I
Journal of Substance Abuse 6:325-332 (1994)

Adviser for Psychoactive Substance Use Disorder Section and to the Task Force on DSM-IV
Bedrick J
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, American Psychiatric Association, Washington, DC (1994)

"Review of Philosophical Foundations of the Three Sociologies"
Bedrick J
Ethics 18(1) (1978)

Dr. Bedrick is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry.

• Psychiatry

• Psychiatric evaluation
• Psychiatric treatments

• Psychiatry - The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Westchester Division, White Plains, NY

• Psychiatry - The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Westchester Division, White Plains, NY

Selected Presentations

"Coercion and Freedom" and "A Phenomenological Analysis of a Community Mental Health Center"
Papers to be presented at the 13th annual conference of The International Network of Philosophy and Psychiatry, Manchester, United Kingdom (June 28-30, 2011)

"Evidence and Art"
To be presented at the 22nd annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry held in association with the meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, New Orleans, Louisiana (May 22-23, 2011)

"Mental Disorders Are Disorders of Freedom"
Presented at the 12th International Conference for Philosophy and Psychiatry, Lisbon, Portugal (October 22-24, 2009)

"Addiction and Freedom" and "Mental Illness, Freedom, and Responsibility"
Papers presented at the 11th annual conference of The International Network of Philosophy and Psychiatry, Dallas, Texas (October 6-8, 2008)