Kenneth Fligsten, M.D. is a board certified psychiatrist who has been in private practice for over 30 years.

He graduated from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and received his psychiatric training at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

He has been a member of the teaching faculties in the departments of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Hospital and the University of Maryland. Dr. Fligsten has been on the staffs at Crownsville and Spring Grove Hospital Centers.

He has published on topics relating to psychosomatic medicine and is eclectic in his approach to emotional problems, considering both the physical and emotional factors contributing to his patients’ distress.

He uses non-medicinal therapeutic techniques including meditation based on Buddhist practices.

Dr. Fligsten is well versed in the use of medications to treat emotional disorders of all degrees of severity. He has a special interest in acute and chronic stress related conditions.