Into the Absurd with Tina Brock

EP 016: Psychiatry and Improvisation: Music and the Mind with Dr. Beverly Shin


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Dr. Beverly Shin received her medical degree from Jefferson Medical College and is currently a resident physician in the Department of Psychiatry at New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. She is currently an American Psychiatric Association Fellow in Public Psychiatry and will be an addiction psychiatry fellowship at the University of Washington next year. She is alos in her first year of psychoanalytic training at the Columbia University Center For Psychoanalytic Training and Research.

Prior to her medical training, Dr. Shin enjoyed a 12-year career as a classical violinist and performed as a solo, chamber music, and orchestral musician throughout the U.S., as well as in Canada, Asia, Europe, and South America. She holds a doctorate in violin performance from New England Conservatory and has held teaching positions at several universities.

Combining both her love of music and psychiatry, she has developed a series of workshops using musical improvisation to explore making mistakes, imposter syndrome, and group collaboration. She has presented this workshop to medical students at Jefferson Medical College, as well as to psychiatric patients at New York Presbyterian Hospital.
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