Eric Sherman, PsyD

PPDA Co-founder

Eric Sherman PsyD

Clinical Psychologist. License # NYS 008292
19 West 34th St, Suite PH-13
New York, NY 10001
(212) 947-7111 x 227
esherman@pathwaystopainrelief.comPathwaysToPainRelief.com
Books: Pathways To Pain Relief (2013), Psychophysiologic Disorders: Trauma Informed, Interprofessional Diagnosis & Treatment (2019)
Currently accepting new patients
Life Coaching via video: YES - FaceTime, Zoom or Skype. Worldwide. New patients must complete an in-person evaluation
Life Coaching via phone: YES - Worldwide. New patients must complete an in-person evaluation


Eric G. Sherman, Psy.D., a graduate of The New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis has a full-time private practice in New York. He also provides supervision and training to mental health professionals.  Since completing his clinical psychology internship in 1984 at Rusk Institute—NYU Langone Medical Center under the aegis of the late John Sarno, MD, Dr. Sherman has specialized in the assessment and treatment of mindbody disorders, as well as the psychological issues associated with serious medical illness and disability. Together with Dr. Frances S. Anderson, Dr. Sherman co-authored “Pathways to Pain Relief” (2013) which details how treatment for psychophysiologic pain disorders works from the perspective of both the patient and the therapist.  Dr. Sherman is a founding Board Member of the PPDA (Psychophysiologic Disorders Association) and was recently appointed Co-chair of the Committee on Health Care and Psychoanalysis of Division 39.  Along with Dr. Anderson, he teaches a course, "When Stress Causes Pain, Can the Psychoanalyst Intervene?" at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis in NYC.