Making Sense of Emotions: Innovating Emotional Intelligence

Frank John Ninivaggi, MD, is an Associate Attending Physician at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Child Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine, Yale Child Study Center. He is Director of Psychiatric Services at the Devereux Glenholme School in Washington, Connecticut. He is Board certified in Psychiatry and Neurology, and in 2004 was certified as a Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He received training at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. He also trained at the Radcliffe Infirmary Hospital of Oxford University, Oxford, England. He currently holds both university and hospital appointments at the Yale Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine where he earlier received Fellowship specialty training in child and adolescent psychiatry. He is in private practice in New Haven, Connecticut. Dr. Ninivaggi’s publications include the textbooks: Ayurveda: A Comprehensive Guide to Traditional Indian Medicine for the West (2008); Envy Theory: Perspectives on the Psychology of Envy (2010), Biomental Child Development: Perspectives on Psychology and Parenting (2013), and a chapter, “The Psychology of Aging,” in Yue et al. (Eds.), The Comprehensive Treatment of the Aging Spine: Minimally Invasive and Advanced Techniques (2011). He has contributed sections on “Borderline Intellectual Functioning and Academic Problems,” and “Malingering” to Kaplan & Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 8th, 9th, and 10th (2017) eds., in Sadock et al. (Eds.).