BLAISE AGUIRRE, MD
- Harvard title(s): Instructor in Psychiatry
- McLean title(s): Medical Director - Adolescent DBT Center
- Email: baguirre@partners.org
- Telephone: (617) 855-3331
- Office Address: 115 Mill Street - East House, Belmont, MA 02478
- Degree(s):
- 1989 M.D. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Residency:
- 1991-1994 Boston University School of Medicine Residency in Psychiatry
- 1990 Rotating Internship VAMC Boston, MA
- Fellowship:
- 1994-1996 Boston Medical Center Boston, Massachusetts Child and Adolescent Fellowship
- Board Certifications(s):
- 1996 American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Board Certified in Psychiatry
- Bio:
Dr. Aguirre is an expert in child, adolescent and adult psychotherapy, including dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and psychopharmacology. He is medical director of 3East at Harvard - affiliated McLean Hospital, a unique, residential DBT program for young women exhibiting self-endangering behaviors and borderline personality traits. Dr. Aguirre has been a staff psychiatrist at McLean since 2000 and is widely recognized for his extensive work in the treatment of mood and personality disorders in adolescents.
Dr. Aguirre is the author of Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents: A Complete Guide to Understanding and Coping When Your Adolescent Has BPD and his new book Depression (Biographies of Disease). He is a co-author of Helping Your Troubled Teen: Learn to Recognize, Understand, and Address the Destructive Behavior of Today's Teens.
- Publications:
- Aguire B. (2008). Biographies of Disease: Depression. Wesport, CT. Greenwood Press.
- Aguirre B. (November 2007). Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents: A Complete Guide to Understanding and Coping When Your Adolescent Has BPD. Fair Winds Press.
- Kaplan C., Aguirre B., Rater M. (2007). Helping Your Troubled Teen: Learn to Recognize, Understand, and Address the Destructive Behavior of Today's Teens and Preteens. Beverly, MA. Fair Winds Press.