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
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, a talk on research in psychodynamic psychotherapy, and a workshop on TFP).
The Psychiatric Residency Program at the University of Southern California.
The Psychiatric Residency Program at 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.
November 2009
Workshop on Transference-Focused Psychotherapy, British Psychological Society,
London, UK
Workshop on TFP in Manchester, UK, sponsored by the Macartney House Psychotherapy
Service
TFP training in Parma, Italy
October 2009
Workshop on TFP in New Haven CT, co-sponsored by the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis and the Connecticut Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology
TFP Training Seminar, Gatineau-Ottawa, Canada
On-line TFP course and case consultation begins
June 2009
UCLA Conference on Borderline Personality Disorder, Los Angeles
May 2009
CME course on TFP with Drs. Kernberg, Clarkin and Caligor at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting
Symposium organized by Dr. Ken Silk: Empirically Validated and Effective Psychotherapies for Borderline Personality at the APA Annual Meeting, San Francisco
April 2009
Meeting with the Dutch TFP Association, Maastricht, the Netherlands
Seminar, Psychiatric Group of Parma, Italy
March 2009
Annual Special Guest of the Psychotherapy Program of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver
February 2009
The New Era of Treatments That Work, Conference on DBT, MBT, and TFP sponsored by McLean Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Workshop on diagnosis and treatment of patients with antisocial traits, la Clinique du Faubourg Saint Jean, Quebec City
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