Jeff Boyd graduated from Harvard University, with a Masters of Divinity degree and was ordained a minister. He then served in a church on the north shore of Boston, during which time he became interested in psychology.
He was awarded Fulbright Fellowship for study in Switzerland and trained at the Carl Jung Institute in Zürich. After his return to the US he enrolled in Harvard University’s pre-med program. He graduated from Case Western Reserve Medical School in Ohio, as class president.
He completed his psychiatry residency at Yale University, while also obtaining an MPH degree in public health and epidemiology from Yale.
Dr. Boyd is the chairman of the spirituality committee for the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry, on the editorial board of Journal of Religion and Health, and has published more than three-dozen scholarly articles or chapters in books on the intersection of religion and health. He has published two books on the subject of health and religion: Reclaiming the Soul, and Being Sick Well: Joyful Living Despite Chronic Illness (Baker Publishing; April 1, 2005)
Dr. Boyd is a Psychiatrist and Chairman of Behavioral Health at Waterbury Hospital Health Center, a Yale Medical School-affiliated teaching hospital.