Robert Benjamin, M.D.

  • Board Certified Psychiatrist (American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology)
  • Addiction Medicine Specialist (American Society of Addiction Medicine)
  • Medical Director, Behavioral Medicine
  • St. Luke’s Quakertown Hospital
  • Member, St. Luke’s Physician Group and St. Luke’s Psychiatric Associates
  • Licensed to practice medicine in Pennsylvania and New Jersey
  • Certified by Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to prescribe restricted, scheduled pharmaceuticals, including Suboxone
  • Full Time Hospital Practice since 1976

No insurances accepted for private outpatient treatment.
(Insurance plans accepted for hospitalization only)

Services

Expert psychopharmacology (use of psychiatric medications) consultations
and second opinions for

  • Patients in Our Practice Seeing Me or in Treatment with Lynn
  • Family Medical Practitioners (Primary Care Physicians) and Nurse Practitioners
  • Psychiatrists and Neurologists who request psychopharmacologic consultations
  • Obstetricians and Midwives
  • Psychologists
  • Social Workers
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Psychotherapists and Counselors
  • Pastoral Counselors and Clergy

Diagnosis and Treatment of:

Psychiatric and Neuropsychiatric conditions including

  • Depression of all varieties
  • Bipolar Disorder and Subtypes
  • Attention Deficit Disorder in Adolescents, pre-Adolescents, and Adults
  • Psychotic conditions (Paranoia, Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, etc)
  • Anxiety and Panic Disorders
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
  • Dissociative Disorders

Addictions to

  • Alcohol
  • Prescription Drugs and Street Drugs
  • Other addictive conditions such as Tobacco, Gambling, Sexual Addictions

(Some of the pharmaceuticals used to help people with sobriety are Campral, Naltexone, Vivitrol, and Suboxone.)

Psychiatric Complications of Medical and Neurological Conditions including

  • Fibromyalgia
  • Chronic Pain
  • Multiple Sclerosis

Memberships

  • American Psychiatric Association
  • Pennsylvania Medical Society
  • Bucks County Medical Society
  • American Society of Addiction Medicine
  • Greater Philadelphia Society of Clinical Hypnosis

Education

Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
Accelerated entrance to medical school after three years

Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Graduated with Distinguished Honors
Alpha Omega Alpha, Medical Honor Society (considered Phi Beta Kappa for physicians)

Internship in Medicine and Psychiatry

Pennsylvania Hospital
8th and Spruce Sts.
Philadelphia, PA

Psychiatry Residency

Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital
49th and Market Sts. Philadelphia, PA

Including subspecialty training in:

  • Addictions
  • Child and Adolescent Treatment
  • Marriage and Family Therapy