Recent Professional Activities
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
November 2021
Online via Zoom — Transference Focused Psychotherapy (TFP): Foundational Training, Gunderson Personality Disorders Institute, McLean Hospital.
October 2021
Zoom Conference presented by TFP-New York —
Narcissistic Personality Disorder within the Framework of Object Relations Theory: Current Perspectives, Register here.
September 2021
Nine month Transference-Focused Psychotherapy Training course sponsored by the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, also with an online component, co-taught with Eve Caligor MD. Classroom or videoconference, Monday or Tuesday, first or second year, see website for details.
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
Nine month Transference-Focused Psychotherapy Training course sponsored by the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, also with an online component, co-taught with Eve Caligor MD
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
April 2020
American Psychiatric Association (APA) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia
- Director of CME course, Panel Participant
- Psychodynamic Therapy for Personality Disorders: Transference-Focused Psychotherapy Extended (TFP—E)
- Treating Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Transference-Focused Psychotherapy
- Improving Care and Protecting the Clinician: Learning the Multiple Purposes of Treatment Contracting
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
April 2019
Supervision in TFP - Clinique Cherrier, Montreal
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.
September 2018
Congress of the International Society for TFP, Barcelona
Introduction to TFP for Narcissistic Personality Disorder co-taught with Eve Caligor MD
Nine month Transference-Focused Psychotherapy Training course sponsored by the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, also with an online component, co-taught with Eve Caligor MD
July 2018
Segunda Formación en TFP, con énfasis sobre la Personalidad Narcissita, Montevideo, Uruguay
June 2018
Seminar on TFP at the ÖGATAP, Vienna
Continuing Education course on TFP at the World Congress on Psychotherapy, Amsterdam
May 2018
Presentations at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, New York City
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.
November 2017
Didactic supervision at the Clinique Cherrier, Montréal
Part 2 of TFP Training at the the Association of Existential and Analytical Therapists, Moscow
October 2017
Annual meeting of the Société pour l'Intégration Psychiatriue, Lecture: La psychothérapie focalisée sur le transfert et le trauma, Workshop: Introduction à la psychothérapie focalisée sur le transfert.
September 2017
Nine month Transference-Focused Psychotherapy Training course sponsored by the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, also with an online component, co-taught with Eve Caligor MD
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)
New Jersey Psychological Association Spring Meeting: Understanding and Treating Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Livingston, NJ
April 2017
TFP Workshop, the Rhode Island Association for Psychoanalytic Psychologies, Providence
Transference Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) Foundational Training: Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) Part 2, Course offering by The McLean Borderline Personality Disorder Training Institute, Waltham Woods Conference Center, Waltham, MA. Information.
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
February 2017
Grup-TLP Barcelona: Training Course in TFP 2017, Module 1
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, Information and Registration
Cambridge, MA, Foundational Training in Transference Focused Psychotherapy: Part 1, Course offering by The McLean Borderline Personality Disorder Training Institute
September 2016
Vilnius, Lithuania: 3 Day Introductory Workshop on TFP
July 2016
Amsterdam, CE course at the RINO: Transference-Focused Psychotherapy
Munich, International Conference for Personality Disorders: Transference Focused Psychotherapy Case Presentation; and Double-Workshop, BPD and Narcissistic Personality Disorders (in TFP)
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
Atlanta, APA Annual Mtg — CME course: Understanding and Treating Narcissistic Personality Disorder & Symposium: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Across Personality Disorders
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
June 2015
Yale Department of Psychiatry, Resident & Fellow Commencement Address: "Are We Still Biopsychosocial? Will We Continue to Be? (View video starting at 5:15)" June 5, 2015
May 2015
APA Annual Meeting, Toronto
17th — MASTER COURSE: Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder, with Otto Kernberg, MD and John Clarkin PhD, APA Annual Meeting, Toronto
18th — Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Narcissistic Personality Disorder, with Otto Kernberg MD, Eve Caligor MD, and Diana Diamond, PhD
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.
October 2014
ISTFP Conference, Parma, Italy, TFP introductory workshop with Sergio Dazzi, Plenary lecture with Frank Denning,
Supervision Groups for TFP Therapists with Eve Caligor MD
ESSPD Congress, Rome, Italy,
TFP Courses with Stephan Doering and Otto Kernberg, MD;
Eve Caligor MD and Diana Diamond PhD; Martin Bohus, Anthony Bateman, and Valerie Porr
