
Dr. Martin Paul Kafka M.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
22 Mill St Suite #306 Arlington MA, 02476About
Dr. Martin Kafka is a psychiatrist practicing in Arlington, MA. Dr. Kafka is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Kafka diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Kafka may treat patients through a variety of methods including medications, psychotherapy or talk therapy, psychosocial interventions and more, depending on each individual case. Different medications that a psychiatrist might prescribe include antidepressants, antipsychotic mediations, mood stabilizers, stimulants, sedatives and hypnotics. Dr. Kafka treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Suny-Hlth Sci Ctr At Brooklyn, Coll of Med, Brooklyn Ny 1973
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The paraphilia-related disorders: an empirical investigation of nonparaphilic hypersexuality disorders in outpatient males.
- Psychostimulant augmentation during treatment with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in men with paraphilias and paraphilia-related disorders: a case series.
- A DSM-IV Axis I comorbidity study of males (n = 120) with paraphilias and paraphilia-related disorders.
- The monoamine hypothesis for the pathophysiology of paraphilic disorders: an update.
- Sex offending and sexual appetite: the clinical and theoretical relevance of hypersexual desire.
- A comparative study of nonparaphilic sexual addictions and paraphilias in men.
- Fluoxetine treatment of nonparaphilic sexual addictions and paraphilias in men.
- Hypersexual desire in males: are males with paraphilias different from males with paraphilia-related disorders?
- The paraphilia-related disorders: an investigation of the relevance of the concept in sexual murderers.
- Pharmacological treatments for paraphilic patients and sexual offenders.
- Successful treatment of paraphilic coercive disorder (a rapist) with fluoxetine hydrochloride.
- The DSM diagnostic criteria for paraphilia not otherwise specified.
- The DSM diagnostic criteria for fetishism.
- Successful antidepressant treatment of nonparaphilic sexual addictions and paraphilias in men.
- Hypersexual disorder: a proposed diagnosis for DSM-V.
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