A Supervision group led by Drs. Kernberg, Yeomans, and Foelsch Frank E. Yeomans, MD, PhD Pamela A. Foelsch, PhD
The Supervisors:
Otto F. Kernberg, MD
Dr. Kernberg is director of the Personality Disorders Institute at the
New York Presbyterian Hospital and Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Dr. Kernberg is Past President of the International Psychoanalytic Association and also Training and Supervising
Analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. From 1976 to 1995, he was Associate Chairman and Medical Director of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Westchester Division. Dr.
Kernberg has been instrumental in advancing the psychiatric and psychoanalytic understanding of personality structure, and the theory, phenomenology and treatment of personality disorders. He is the author of 10 books and co-author
of 9 others, ranging from Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism (1975) to Contemporary Controversies in Psychoanalytic Theory, Techniques and their Applications (2004).
Dr.
Yeomans is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Since 1995, he has also been Senior Supervisor at the Personality Disorders Institute of Weill-Cornell, under the
directorship of Dr. Kernberg. His other positions included Unit Chief of the Psychodynamic Unit for Borderline Conditions at the New York Hospital-Westchester Division. More recently, Dr. Yeomans has become Director of
the Personality Studies Institute in Manhattan. Dr. Yeomans has participated in establishing training programs for psychodynamic therapy of personality disoders in numerous other sites, including Universite Laval in Quebec,
Pennsylvania State University, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Austria. He has authored and co-authored numerous articles and several books on psychotherapy research and technique, including, with Dr. Kernberg, A Primer
on Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for the Borderline Patient, and Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality.
Dr. Foelsch is a Senior Fellow in the Personality Disorders Institute at
the Weill Medical College of Cornell University where she is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry. Dr. Foelsch received Post-Doctoral Training in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP), a modified
psychodynamic psychotherapy for severe personality disorders, by Dr. Otto Kernberg at the Personality Disorders Institute. Dr. Foelsch has provided workshops and training in TFP and is a senior supervisor. In addition, Dr.
Foelsch conducts research evaluating psychotherapy process and its relation to patient outcome and is an Adjunct Professor at the Smith College School for Social Work in Northampton, MA, where she teaches and is a research
advisor. Dr. Foelsch is a NYS Licensed Clinical Psychologist in private practice in Manhattan and Harrison, New York.
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