Curriculum Vitae

A. PERSONAL DATA
Office: 122 East 42nd Street, Suite 3200
New York, NY 10168
Phone: (212) 213-3677
B. EDUCATION
1. Academic Degrees
1967-1971 A.B. French Literature, Harvard College (Magna cum Laude)
Cambridge, MA
1974-1975 D.E.U.G. Psychology Department, Diplôme d'études universitaires générales
Université Paris Nanterre
Paris, France
1971-1974
1975-1977
Ph.D. Romance Languages and Literatures, Yale University
New Haven, CT
1977-1981 M.D., Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT
2. Other educational experiences
1974-1975 Fellow, Ecole Normale Supérieure
Paris, France
1976-1977 The Mark Kanzer Fellow for interdisciplinary work in the humanities and psychoanalysis, Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis, New Haven, CT
1987 Trainee, Program in Authority, Leadership and Organization, The Tavistock Institute
London, England
C. POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING
1981-1985 Psychiatry Resident
New York Hospital - Cornell Medical Center
D. PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
1. Academic Positions:
1985-1988 Instructor in Psychiatry
Weill Cornell Medicine (Cornell University Medical College)
1988-1994 Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Weill Cornell Medicine
1994-1995 Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Weill Cornell Medicine
1995-present Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Weill Cornell Medicine
1996-present Lecturer in psychoanalysis
Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
2006-present Adjunct Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
2. Hospital Positions:
1985-1994 Assistant Attending Psychiatrist
New York Presbyterian Westchester (New York Hospital/Westchester Division)
1994-present Associate Attending Psychiatrist
NYP/Weill Cornell Medicine
3. Other professional positions and employment:
1985-present Psychiatrist, Private Practice, New York City
1995-1998 Consulting Psychiatrist, Family Court of New York City (part-time)
E. LICENSURE, BOARD CERTIFICATION
Licensure:
New York State, # 151755, Date of issue 1982, Registration through 7/31/23
DEA Number: AY 265 0403
Board Certification:
11/1986 American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Certificate # 28661, no expiration
F. INSTITUTIONAL/HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS
Primary Hospital Affiliation: New York Presbyterian Hospital
Other Hospital Affiliations: none
Other Institutional Affiliations: none (consultant roles discussed below)
G. EMPLOYMENT STATUS
Voluntary (full-time private practice of psychiatry)
H. HONORS AND AWARDS
1976 Mark Kanzer Award for work in the humanities and psychoanalysis
Western New England Psychoanalytic Institute
2008 Honorary President
Personality Disorders Lab of Italy (Milan)
2009 Award for Excellence in Psychoanalytic Scholarship and Distinguished Contributions to the Journal
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
2012 Honorary member
American Psychoanalytic Association
2015 Distinguished Psychiatrist Lecture
UCLA Department of Psychiatry
2021 Arnold Cooper Memorial Grand Rounds Lecture
Weill Cornell Medicine Department of Psychiatry
I. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
1985-pres. American Psychiatric Association
Member
2008-2022 Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry
Chair, Committee on Psychotherapy
2011-2018 International Society for Transference-Focused Psychotherapy
Director of Training
2012-pres. American Psychoanalytic Association
Honorary Member
2016-2020 Emotions Matter (advocacy group for borderline personality disorder)
Board Member
2020-present Emotions Matter (advocacy group for borderline personality disorder)
Member of Education Committee
2018-present International Society for Transference-Focused Psychotherapy
President

J. PERCENT EFFORT If you are part-time at Weill Cornell (Adjunct, Visiting, Courtesy), base the percentage on your overall effort.
Clinical 0%
Scholarly activity 40%
Teaching 50%
Administration 10%
100%

K. EDUCATIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS AT WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE

Didactic
Personality disorder course for NYP/WCM PGY 2 Psychiatry Residents (3 hours/year)
Personality disorder course for NYP/WCM PGY 3 Psychiatry Residents (12 hours/year)

Clinical/supervisory
TFP Elective for NYP/WCM PGY 4 Psychiatry Residents (year-long, one hour/week)

Administrative
Personality Disorders Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine
Fellow and Director of Training, 1995-present

Continuing and Professional education
Lectures and supervision of practicing clinicians with a focus on psychodynamic therapy of borderline personality disorder. See below for details.

Community education
Member of Emotions Matter, 2016-present
• the nation's largest advocacy group for borderline personality disorder

L. CLINICAL PRACTICE, INNOVATION, AND LEADERSHIP

1. Clinical practice:

Inpatient Psychiatry, NYP/Weill Cornell (Westchester), 1986-1995

  • Assistant Unit Chief,
    Unit for the Treatment of Psychotic and Character Disorders 1986-1989
  • Unit Chief,
    Unit for the Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder, 1989-1995

Outpatient psychotherapy of borderline personality disorders, 1986-present

2. Clinical innovations:

Co-developer of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP).
TFP is an evidence-based manualized psychotherapy grounded in contemporary psychoanalytic theory

3. Clinical leadership

Co-developer, supervisor, and consultant to Transference-Focused Psychotherapy programs at Weill Cornell Medicine and to academic institutions throughout the world.

M. RESEARCH

1. Research Activities
My focus since 1985 has been on developing effective, evidence-based psychodynamic treatment for borderline personality disorders. I have been a core member of the Weill Cornell Department of Psychiatry's Personality Disorders Institute's (PDI) Research Efforts since 1987. My contributions have included developing the psychotherapy manuals used in the study and training and supervising the therapists in the studies.

Most recently, I have been the chief supervisor for one of the two groups of therapists participating in "Predictors of change in borderline pathology through Transference-Focused psychotherapy". Dworman Foundation Research Fund. 1/1/15 through 1/1/20, $2,100,000

2. Research Support
Past funding

Source: The American Psychoanalytic Association
Title: "Psychotherapy of Borderline Patients."
Direct cost: $12,000/year
Duration: 1987-1989
Principal Investigators: John Clarkin, Ph.D and Harold Koenigsberg, M.D.
Personal effort: Co-Investigator, focused on treatment contracts, 12%
• This study involved developing a therapy manual and rating instruments for therapist adherence

Source: Fund for Psychoanalytic Research, American Psychoanalytic Association
Title: "Psychotherapy of Borderline Inpatients."
Direct cost: $13,085/year
Duration: 1992-1994
Principal Investigator: James Hull, Ph.D.
Personal effort: Co-Investigator, 20% effort
• Explored the relationship between patient language in psychotherapy, symptom levels, and therapeutic alliance in hospitalized borderline patient.

Source: National Institute of Mental Health
Title: "Psychotherapy of Borderline Personality Disorder Patients."
Direct and indirect cost: $103,053/year
Duration: 1992-1995
Principal Investigator: John Clarkin, Ph.D.
Personal effort: Co-Investigator, 10% effort
• Studied the first year of a psychotherapy study that compared a manualized psychodynamic psychotherapy with a cognitive behavioral treatment of people with borderline personality disorder

Source: Borderline Research Foundation
Title: "Randomized Clinical Trial for BPD Patients."
Direct cost: $333,000/year
Duration: 1995-2005
Principal Investigators: Otto Kernberg, M.D. and John Clarkin, Ph.D.
Personal effort: Co-Investigator and Director of the TFP Effort
• Compared a manualized psychodynamic psychotherapy (TFP) with a cognitive behavioral treatment of people with borderline personality disorder

Current Funding
Source: Private funding
Title: "Psychological and fMRI changes in BPD Patients."
Direct cost: $500,000 total
Duration: 2008-present
Principal Investigators: Otto Kernberg, M.D. and John Clarkin, Ph.D.
Personal effort: Co-Investigator and director of the therapy cell, 10% effort
• Studying psychological and functional imaging changes during the treatment of people with borderline personality disorder

N. MENTORING

Current Mentees:

Richard Hersh, MD
Voluntary Faculty Columbia Department of Psychiatry
2015 to present
Clinical Supervision and co-authorship
Expected outcomes: participation as research therapist.
Teaching and writing. Co-authored book "Fundamentals of TFP", 2016

Mark Petrini, MD, PhD
Voluntary Faculty Columbia Department of Psychiatry
2018 to present
Clinical supervision
Expected outcomes: participation as research therapist.
Teaching and writing

Ben McCommon, MD
Voluntary Faculty Columbia Department of Psychiatry
2018 to present
Clinical supervision
Expected outcomes: participation as research therapist.
Teaching and writing

Jack Keefe, PhD
Research Fellow, Clinical Supervisor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
2020 to present
Co-authorship
Expected outcomes: advancement in his academic career.
Teaching and writing

Katherine Kennedy, MD
Voluntary Faculty, Yale School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry
2020 to present
Co-editing book on clinical supervision and guiding her in taking over as Chair of the GAP Committee on Psychotherapy

Yogev Kivity, PhD
Senior Lecturer and Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Bar Ilan University, Israel
2020 to present
Expected outcomes: advancement in his academic career.
Teaching and writing
Clinical supervision and organizing TFP trainings in Israel

Past Mentees:

Chris Green, MD
2019 to 2021
Clinical supervision and co-authorship
Expected outcomes:
Teaching and writing

Stewart Adelson, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, WCMC
1995 to 2021
Clinical supervision and co-authorship
Expected outcomes: advancement in his academic career.
Teaching and writing

Ken Levy, PhD
Professor of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University
1999 to 2020
Clinical supervision and co-authorship
Expected outcomes: advancement in his academic career.
Teaching and writing

O. INSTITUTIONAL LEADERSHIP

P. INSTITUTIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES

Personality Disorders Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine
Fellow and Director of Training, 1995-present

Q. EXTRAMURAL PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
2008-2022 Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP)
Chair, Committee on Psychotherapy
2011-2018 International Society for Transference-Focused Psychotherapy
Director of Training
2016-2020 Emotions Matter (advocacy group for borderline personality disorder)
Board Member
2018-present International Society for Transference-Focused Psychotherapy
President

R. INVITED PRESENTATIONS

Psychiatry Grand Rounds

Maine Medical Center - 1990 – The Treatment Contract in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Borderline Patients

Wright State Medical Center Department of Psychiatry, Ohio - 2010 – Transference- Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Department of Psychiatry Ken Altschuler MD Grand Rounds – 2011 – Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder

Dallas Center for Psychoanalysis Founders' Day Lecture – 2011 – Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Personality Disorders

The Los Angeles New Center for Psychoanalysis Stoller Lecture – 2012 – An Object Relations Model for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder

University of Colorado School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry – 2014 – Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder

UCLA Department of Psychiatry – 2015 - Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder

Yale University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry Graduation Grand Rounds – 2015 – Maintaining the Biopsychosocial Model in the Treatment of Severe Personality Disorders

Lincoln Hospital Department of Psychiatry - 2017 - Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder

Zucker Hillside Hospital Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds – 2017 – Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder

Lenox Hill Hospital – 2018 - Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: Everything Old is New Again

Westchester County Medical Center – 2018 - Treating Personality Disorders at the Level of Psychological Structure

Weill Cornell Medical Center Payne Whitney Clinic – 2018 - Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Refining a Treatment Model

McLean Hospital – the Stanton Lecture – 2018 - Looking Back to Move Forward: Keeping the Person at the Center of Psychiatry,with a Focus on Personality Disorders

Institute of Living, Hartford, CT – 2019 - Treating Personality Disorders at the Level of Psychological Structure

Weill Cornell Medical Center Payne Whitney Clinic – Arnold Cooper Memorial Grand Rounds – 2021 -Back to Basics: The Central Role of the Treatment Contract in Dynamic Therapy

Stanford University Department of Psychiatry – 2022 – Trying to Meet the Challenge of Psychotherapy for Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Extracurricular Teaching

Lectures and CME courses at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting
1995-2022 (except for the cancelled 2021 meeting)

Departments of Psychology and Psychological Associations

Long Island University – 2000 – Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for BPD

Pennsylvania State University – 2010 - Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for BPD

Kentucky Psychological group – 2012 - Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for BPD

NJ Psychological Society – 2017 Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline and Narcissistic Personality Disorders

Rhode Island Psychological Society – 2017 Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline and Narcissistic Personality Disorders

Ongoing International consulting on TFP
1997-2012 Lecturer, consultant and supervisor
Department of Psychology, Université Laval, Québec
1999-2008 Lecturer, consultant and supervisor
The Munich Institute for Transference Focused Psychotherapy, Munich, Germany
2000-2004
2018, 2020
Lecturer, consultant and supervisor
L'Hôpital Céry, Lausanne, Switzerland
2004-2022 Lecturer, consultant and supervisor
The Austrian Society for Applied Deep Psychology and General Psychotherapy, Vienna
2008-present Lecturer, supervisor and honorary president
Personality Disorders Lab of Italy, Parma, Italy

Other International Consulting on TFP to Individual Institutions: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Uruguay

International Conferences

North American Society for the Study of Personality Disorder. Boston – 2013
Plenary Speaker

International Society for Transference Focused Psychotherapy. Parma, Italy – 2014
Plenary Speaker and Workshop leader

European Society for the Study of Personality Disorder. Rome – 2014
Workshop leader and Symposium Speaker

Société pour l'Intégration Psychiatrique Biennial Meeting. Saint-Malo, France – 2015 Plenary Speaker and Workshop leader

North American Society for the Study of Personality Disorder. New York – 2016 Plenary Speaker

International Society for TFP. New York – 2016
Plenary Speaker and Workshop leader

Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists. Hong Kong – 2016
Plenary lecturer

Société pour l'Intégration Psychiatrique Biennial Meeting. Toulouse, France – 2017 Plenary Speaker and Workshop leader
International Society for TFP. Barcelona – 2018
Plenary Speaker and Workshop leader

Shanghai Mental Health Center. Shanghai – 2019
Guest Lecturer

Congrès Français de Psychiatrie. Lille, France – 2020, virtual
Plenary lecturer – 2020

International Society for TFP. Innsbruck, Austria – 2020, virtual
Plenary Speaker

Spanish Society for Personality Disorders. Vigo, Spain – 2021, virtual
Plenary Speaker and Workshop leader

Continue to separate page for Bibliography / Publications.

See Archive of Frank Yeomans MD PhD Professional Activities