Recent Professional Activities
December 2025
Yearly Conference of the Dutch Society of Psychotherapy, Amsterdam. Main topic "I am not a robot" focuses on how nuances of psychotherapy communication cannot be replaced by AI or a language model like ChatGPT. Lecture on December 12: "A Robot Cannot Be Me: Working at a Deep Interpersonal Level with Patients with Personality Disorders." Masterclass on December 11 is titled: "When Therapists Get Paralyzed."
Dr. Yeomans presents to colleagues in Amsterdam
June 2025
Lecture and demonstration with Dr. Luis Valenciano at the Conference of the Spanish Society of Personality Disorders: El Narcisismo: una mirada amable y técnica.
International Psychoanalytic Association Journal Club with Diana Diamond, PhD and Frank Yeomans, MD, hosted by Jack Drescher, MD.
Drs. Diamond and Yeomans discussed their book Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) for Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
May 2025
Lecture: The Roots of TFP and Extensions of TFP at the Inaugural Meeting of the Polish TFP Society.
April 2025
Lecture: Attacks on Meaning from Inside and Out. at the Columbia Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine Symposium: Attacks on Meaning.
February 2025
Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Podcast with Dr. David Puder: Transference-Focused Psychotherapy, Borderline Personality Disorder and Narcissism, (also available on YouTube)
January 2025
Four Postgraduate Degree Presentations in Psychoanalysis, each two hours, sponsored by the Intercontinental University (UIC) and TFP Mexico Group — Transference Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: Strategies to transform personality structure and improve symptoms:
1. Transference Focused Psychotherapy (TFP): Fundamental Principles,
Location: Iberoamerican University (in person)
2. Treatment of Narcissistic Personality Disorder,
Location: Mexican Psychoanalytic Association (hybrid)
3. TFP for Borderline Personality Disorder,
Location: Intercontinental University (in person)
4. Challenges in the Treatment of Narcissism,
Location: Mexican Association of Group Analytical Psychotherapy (hybrid)
September 2024
The 8th ISTFP Biennial Conference in New York, see program information.
Polish Society of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Kraków, Poland, The need to address aggression in the psychdynamic treatment of severe personality disorders.
Dr. Yeomans presents remotely to an audience of 1200 attendees
"Going Deeper Into Transference-Focused Psychotherapy:
Details of the Diagnostic and Contracting Processes and Their Crucial Role Throughout the Therapy," an interactive two-day program presented by The New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, and TFP New York LLC.
May 2024
American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, New York, see course details.
April 2024
Lecture and two day training workshop in An Evidence-based Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder, at the American College of Greece, Athens, Greece.
Nine month training course in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Adolescents and Adults, Uruguay, online.
TFP training based in Ukraine, 3-day workshops in multiple sessions, online; September,
December, 2023;
February,
April 2024
February 2024
Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Psychotherapeutic Strategies, a 3-day online workshop sponsored by TFP Group Ukraine.
Presented along with TFP-New York colleagues a Zoom Conference: The Multiple Faces of Narcissism: Conceptualization and Treatment
January 2024
A two-day training at the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles: Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) along with Diana Diamond, PhD.
October 2023
3rd Biennial ISTFP Supervisors' Meeting in Italy
Kenneth Silk Lecture: Trying to Meet the Challenge of Psychotherapy for Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical School
September 2023
TFP training based in Ukraine, the first of four 3-day workshops in multiple sessions, online
Plenary lecture and workshop:
Annual Meeting of the Société de l'Information Psychiatrique, Dijon France
June 2023
Plenary lecture and workshop: Canary Islands at the Congreso Nacional de Trastornos de Personalidad
May 2023
CME Course: Understanding Narcissistic Pathology and Its Treatment With Transference Focused Psychotherapy,
American Psychiatric Association (APA) Annual Meeting
March 2023
Meeting with Dutch TFP Society
October 2022
7th Biennial ISTFP Conference, Innsbruck (online): co-chair of planning committee
August 2022
Training on Transference Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) at the Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile. Lectures given in Spanish.
Dr. Yeomans was confered an Honorary degree by the Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile
May 2022
Understanding Narcissistic Pathology and Its Treatment With Transference Focused Psychotherapy CME Course, presenting with colleagues at the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Annual Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, Monday, May 22 from 1:30 – 5:30 PM PDT
October 2021
Arnold Cooper Memorial Lecture: Back to Basics: The Central Role of the Treatment Contract in Dynamic Therapy, Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College.
November 2020
McLean Hospital Conference on Transference-Focused Psychotherapy, Workshop Leader, Sponsor: McLean Hospital, Address: Belmont MA (conference to be in Everett MA, Contact: Gabrielle S. Ilagan)
September 2020
International Society for Transference-Focused Psychotherapy Biannual Conference, Keynote Speaker, Innsbruck, Austria, Contact: Anna Buchheim, PhD
August 2020
Introduction to Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (in Spanish), Lecture and Workshop,
Sponsor: TFP Uruguay, The Academic Direction of the Master's Degree Program in Clinical Psychology of the School of Psychology, University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay, Contact: Mónica Eidlin
Supervision of TFP (in Spanish), Montevideo, Uruguay, two-day clinical workshop focusing on supervision of TFP. For further information, contact Mónica Eidlin.
June 2020
Advanced Topics in TFP, Workshop Leader, PsyEvent, Moscow, Russia; Contact: Dr. Konstantin Gutman
El desarrollo de la personalidad patológica, Keynote Speaker, Sponsor: Sociedad Española para el Estudios de los Trastornos de Personalidad, Vigo, Spain,
Contact: Dr. Nello Forti
November 2019
"Narcissistic Personalities: The Long Road to the Capacity to Love" with Otto Kernberg, MD and Diana Diamond, PhD, sponsored by The Western New England Psychoanalytic Society and The Connecticut Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology and held at the New Haven Lawn Club. For more information contact: Barbara Marcus or Angelica Kaner.
"Review of the Essentials of TFP and Advanced Topics," Psy-Event, Moscow
September 2019
"Psychodynamic psychotherapy for children, adolescents, and young adults" with Professor Karin Ensink at the Polish Society for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in Krakow, Poland.
Dr. Yeomans presenting in Poland, Sept 2019
"Cómo Captar lo Esencial de la TFP y Cómo Afinar la Técnica a Través de la Observación de Casos Clinicos," Coordinadora General: Psic. Mónica Eidlin, Por Consultas e Inscripcionies: Uruguay.TFP@gmail.com,
Organiza TFP-Uruguay
July 2019
"Transference Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) Foundational Training: Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)" sponsored by the Hangzhou (China) Institute of Personality Studies and Development jointly with the Personality Disorder Institute and the International Society of Transference Focused Psychotherapy.
May 2019
Psychodynamic Therapy for Personality Pathology: Transference-Focused Psychotherapy — Extended at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) led by Eve Caligor, MD with John Clarkin, PhD, Richard G. Hersh, MD, Otto F. Kernberg, MD, Frank Yeomans, MD, PhD
Dilemmas in the Treatment of Narcissistic Personality Disorder, led by Glen Owens Gabbard, MD with Frank Yeomans, MD, PhD, Diana Diamond, PhD, Holly D Crisp, MD, Elsa Ronningstam
Treating Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Transference-Focused Psychotherapy, at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) with Otto F. Kernberg, MD, Eve Caligor, MD, Diana Diamond, PhD
February 2019
Rome - Personality Disorders in Youth and Emerging Adulthood: Assessment and Treatment, with Vincenzo Caretti on DSM-5 and AMPD, Massimo Ammaniti on personality disorders in adolescents and young adults, Fabio Madeddu, borderline pathology, Sergio Dazzi on the PDLab and treatment, and Frank Yeomans MD PhD on TFP; Workshop on Therapy with Narcissistic Personality Disorder with Discussion of Cases, LUMSA University (the Vatican University of Rome)
January 2019
NEA-BPD Call-in discussion of Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Demystifying Narcissism. Panel with Meg Wolitzer, Eve Caligor, MD, Todd Essig, and Frank Yeomans, MD, PhD sponsored by Columbia Psychoanalytic, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York.
November 2018
Formation Théorique en TFP at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland. "The Challenge of Narcissism," workshop on TFP for Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
June 2018
Seminar on TFP at the ÖGATAP, Vienna
Continuing Education course on TFP at the World Congress on Psychotherapy, Amsterdam
April 2018
"Levels of BPD", Plenary Lecture at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (NASSPD), New York City
March 2018
Premier Module de Formation Théorique en TFP at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland. "Fundamental Concepts of TFP" workshop.
June 2017
Workshop on TFP, the Association of Existential and Analytical Therapists, Moscow
Dr. Yeomans with the graduating class from the TFP Training in Murcia, Spain, June 2017
May 2017
Presentations at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, San Diego: (see video clip)
March 2017
Audio of Los Angeles radio station KABC's "In Your Right Mind" weekly roundtable discussion, and Q&A.
Workshop on TFP, The Hincks Dellcrest Centre-Gail Appel Institute, Toronto
November 2016
Denver, 2-day workshop on Transference Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline and Narcissistic Personality Disorders, sponsored by University of Colorado Denver Department of Psychiatry
October 2016
New York, The 4th Bi-annual Conference of the International Society for TFP
Cambridge, MA, Foundational Training in Transference Focused Psychotherapy: Part 1, Course offering by The McLean Borderline Personality Disorder Training Institute
May 2016
Hong Kong, Annual Meeting of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists — Pre-Congress Workshop, TFP: An evidence based psychodynamic therapy for borderline and narcissistic personality disorder; Plenary lecture: Focused Psychodynamic Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder
February 2016
GRUP-TLP Barcelona's 5th annual conference: "Narcissism," with Drs. Otto Kernberg, Stephan Doering, Lina Normandin, Miguel-Angel González-Torres, Luis Valenciano, and Joan Vegué, Barcelona, Spain
October 2015
Dr. Yeomans' address to the UCLA Psychiatric Clinical Faculty Association upon receiving the group's Distinguished Psychiatrist Award, Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder
September 2015
Two-day Conference: Psychodynamic Treatment of Narcissistic Personality Disorder, with Dr. Otto Kernberg, Polish Society for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Krakow, Poland. Contact Maria Bazan as needed for info.
Drs. Kernberg and Yeomans, Conference in Krakow, Poland
March 2015
Workshops in TFP in Australia:
20-21 — Integrating the Fragmented Self: Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline and Narcissistic Personality Disorders, The Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Western Australia, Perth
22 — "Introduction to Transference-Focused Psychotherapy," Sponsored by Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry (South Australian Branch and Faculty of Psychotherapy), Australian and New Zealand Association for Psychiatrists in Training (ANZAPT) and the South Australian Psychiatry Training Committee (SAPTC), Longview Winery, Adelaide, enquiries.
23 — "The Treatment of Personality Disorders," Sponsored by ANZAPT and SAPTC, Adelaide, enquiries.
23&24 — Monday and Tuesday evening supervision and training workshops in TFP, Sponsored by Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry (South Australian Branch and Faculty of Psychotherapy), ANZAPT and the SAPTC, Adelaide, enquiries.
24 — "TFP for Personality Disorder," Sponsored by The Adelaide Clinic (Ramsay Health Care Incorporated) and The University of Adelaide, enquiries.
24 — "Erotic and Eroticized Transference," Sponsored by the Department of Psychiatry, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, enquiries.
27 — Transference-Focused Psychotherapy, Royal North Shore Hospital St Leonards Sydney and The Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, enquiries.
30-31 — Psychodynamic psychotherapies in practice, St. Vincent's Hospital and The University of Melbourne, contact Mary Veljanovska.
