Robert A. Farrell, Ph.D., ABPP career began as a physiological psychologist working on a series of studies mapping reward pathways in the brain. In 1990, I received my Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Long Island University (Brooklyn campus), in 1998 my post doctoral certification in psychoanalysis from Adelphi University, and in 2000, my post doctoral certification in group psychoanalysis from Adelphi University.