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.
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
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
April 2011
TFP Training, Part 2, Manchester, UK
January 2011
Panel on Narcissism, Winter Meeting, American Psychoanalytic Association, New York, NY
TFP Training, Vienna, Austria
December 2010
Visiting Professor, Residency Training Event, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
November 2010
Visiting Professor at Hopital du Sacre Coeur psychiatry training program, Montreal
TFP Training, Manchester, UK
TFP training/seminars at the RINO-Noord, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Supervision and meeting of the Dutch TFP Association, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
October 2010
Presentation/Workshop at the Department of Psychiatry, Université Laval, Québec City, Canada
July 2010
Lecture, International Congress on BPD, Berlin: Update on modifications in
TFP.
Lecture, Second International Conference on TFP, Berlin
May 2010
The American Psychiatric Association: 1) CME course on TFP for Borderline Personality, with Otto Kernberg, John Clarkin and Eve Caligor 2) Symposium on Psychodynamic Psychotherapies for BPD with Glen Gabbard, Peter Fonagy, Anthony Bateman, John Gunderson, and Eve Caligor.
Conference on Narcissisme Pathologique in Montréal
March 2010
Association Psychiatrique du Nouveau Brunswick, Canada
The New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles (the Stoller Lecture).
The Psychiatric Residency Programs at the University of Southern California and UCLA.
Jan/Feb 2010
The New York University Residency program, with Eve Caligor and Ben Davidman
The Columbia Psychoanalytic Center's Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program, with Eric Fertuck and Peter Bookstein
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