Dr. Patricia Carneval is a board-certified psychiatrist whose practice is primarily focused on the treatment of anxiety and depression. She also has special interests in the issues surrounding relationship challenges, separation and divorce, eating disorders, psychiatric complications of medical disorders, and forensic examination and testimony. Her work involves short and long term psychotherapy, as well as expert, but conservative, use of medications.

Dr. Carneval received her B. S. degree in Biochemistry, and her M.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. She did residencies in General Surgery, and Psychiatry at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, as well as a fellowship in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at Pennsylvania and Jefferson Hospitals. She completed post-graduate training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. She served as Director of In-Patient Psychiatry at Doylestown Hospital, and Admissions Psychiatrist at Carrier Clinic. She has served as Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, and UMDNJ. She currently serves as psychiatric consultant to the Student Health Service at Princeton University, and is a private practitioner with Cedar Glen, PA.

Dr. Carneval's principles of treatment involve helping her patients take a reality-based look at their problems, noticing their own contributions and avoidance strategies, then focusing on new ways to more effectively deal with each challenge. Special emphasis is usually placed on family and marital interactions, and making sense of the patterns at hand. Many find such interpretations and clarity to be enormously relieving and directional, often without the use of medications