Dr. Yeomans is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Director of Training at the Personality Disorders Institute of Weill-Cornell, Lecturer in Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and Director of the Personality Studies Institute in Manhattan. He graduated from Harvard College and went on to obtain his M.D. from the Yale University School of Medicine and complete his training in psychiatry at the Payne Whitney Clinic of the New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Medical College.
ON-LINE COURSE: Videoconference Training in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy, taught by Eve Caligor MD and Frank Yeomans MD PhD, Sponsored by the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, September 3, 2013 - June 3, 2014
Dr. Yeomans' primary interests are the development, investigation, teaching, and practice of psychotherapy for personality disorders. He has participated in establishing training programs for psychodynamic therapy of personality disorders in numerous sites in North America and Europe. He has authored and co-authored numerous articles and books, including A Primer on Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for the Borderline Patient, and Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality: Focusing on Object Relations, co-authored with Drs. John Clarkin and Otto Kernberg. He was the head of the team of TFP therapists in the RCT reported on in the article "Evaluating three treatments for borderline personality disorder: a multiwave study" that appeared in the American Journal of Psychiatry in June 2007.
Recent Professional Activities
February 2013
Workshop in TFP at The Psychotherapy Institute - Istanbul, Turkey
November 2012
TFP Training at the Instituto di Psicoterapia Psicoanalitica - Turin, Italy
TFP Training - Bilbao, Spain
October 2012
Workshop in TFP - East End Psychological Associates - Louisville, KY
September 2012
September 2012 - June 2013, Transference-Focused Psychotherapy Training, Sponsored by the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, co-taught with Eve Caligor MD
"Problèmes spéciaux et limite de la traitabilité: Organisation névrotique, narcissisme malin, personnalité antisociale" with André Renaud, L.Ps., Louis Diguer, Ph.D., and Dominick Gamache, Ph.D. at the Université Laval, Québec City
"CME Course on Transference-Focused Psychotherapy" with Stephan Doering, M.D., Nel Draijer, Ph.D., and Otto Kernberg, M.D. at the 2nd International Congress on Borderline Personality Disorder, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2nd Meeting of the International Society for Transference-Focused Psychotherapy, Amsterdam
May 2012
"CME Course on Transference-Focused Psychotherapy" with Otto Kernberg, M.D. and John Clarkn, Ph.D. at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Philadelphia
"Les troubles de personnalité complexe et les troubles de l'humeur" at the Regroupement des psychologues cliniciens du Québec, Québec City
April 2012
"Training in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy, Part I" at the Instituto di Psicoterapia Psicoanalitica, Turin, Italy
TFP Training at the Maudsley Hospital with Diana Diamond, PhD. London, UK
March 2012
"TFP: Phase Initiale du traitement" with André Renaud, L.Ps. at the Université Laval, Québec City
Feb 2012
TFP Training for the Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz, Mexico
Jan 2012
"Psicoterapia Focalizzata sul Transfert (TFP)" with Otto Kernberg, M.D. at the Personality Disorders Lab in Parma, Italy
"Recent Developments in Narcissism" with Otto Kernberg, M.D. at the University of Milan, Bicocca
Nov 2011
"Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Patients with Co-morbid Narcissistic and Borderline Personality disorder: The Contributions of Research to Therapy" with Diana Diamond, Ph.D. as part of the White Society Colloquium, William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society, New York
Oct 2011
TFP Training in Istanbul, Turkey with Dr. Otto Kernberg
Inaugural weekend of Québec TFP training, sponsored by Université Laval
September 2011
September 13, 2011 through June 12, 2012: Transference-Focused Psychotherapy Program, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, see PDF also, taught with Eve Caligor MD
TFP Seminar, Finnish Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Association, Helsinki, Finland
International Society for TFP conference - New York
June 2011
TFP Training for Eastern European Therapists, American Austrian Foundation, Salzburg, Austria
May 2011
American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting with Dr. Otto
Kernberg
Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality: Observing and
Discussing the Hands-on Work, 5/15
What’s the Difference That Makes the Difference? Commonalities and Differences
Across Efficacious Treatments for BPD, 5/16
January 2011
Panel on Narcissism, Winter Meeting, American Psychoanalytic Association, New York, NY
See Archive of Frank Yeomans MD PhD Professional Activities
