President
Frank E. Yeomans, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Director of Training, Personality Disorders Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College; Adjunct Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons; Officer, TFP New York.
Vice President
Eve Caligor, MD
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons; Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; Director of Psychotherapy Training and Research, Training and Supervising Analyst, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, New York.
Treasurer
Melitta Fischer-Kern, MD
Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy at the Medical University of Vienna. Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
Coordinator for Training and Education issues
Luis Valenciano, MD
Head Coordinator of Day Hospital – Personality Disorders Unit, Hospital Román Alberca, El Palmar, Murcia, Spain; Co-Director “Cursos de Psiquiatría” Universidad del Mar, Universidad de Murcia. Molina de Segura, Murcia, Spain.
Coordinator for Research and Scientific issues
Emanuele Preti, PhD
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy). Clinical psychologist and psychotherapist.
Executive Officer for the Board
Veronica Steiner Segal
Clinical Psychologist, Coordinator of TFP Group Chile.
Professor at TFP Latinoamerica. Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Valparaiso
Member-at-large to provide representation for the general membership
John F. Clarkin, PhD
Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College; Co-director, Personality Disorders Institute, New York.
Member-at-large to provide representation for the general membership
Chiara De Panfilis, MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Unit of Neuroscience, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Italy.
Member-at-large to provide representation for the general membership
Stephan Doering, MD
Professor and Chair of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Head of the Department of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy at the Medical University of Vienna. Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
Member-at-large to provide representation for the general membership
Nel Draijer, PhD
Clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, and Associate Professor at the Department of Psychiatry, Free University of Amsterdam in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Member-at-large to provide representation for the general membership
Mónica Eidlin, PhD
Psychologist and Psychoanalyst in private practice in Montevideo, Uruguay; Magister in Psychoanalysis granted by the Instituto Universitario de Postgrado en Psicoanálisis de la Asociación Psicoanalítica del Uruguay; Titular Professor and Analyst in didactic functions of the Psychoanalytic Association of Uruguay (APU)
Member-at-large to provide representation for the general membership
Theophilus Kok, MD
Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist; Founder and Director, Institute of Personality Studies and Development, Hangzhou, China.
Member-at-large to provide representation for the general membership
Maya Krischer, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, Head of the Day Clinic Program for Adolescents with Personality Disorders, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Clinic of Cologne, Germany.
Honorary President
Otto F. Kernberg, MD Otto F. Kernberg was elected as Honorary President of the ISTFP by the membership assembly on October 15, 2016. He is the founder of TFP and developed Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) together with his colleagues at the Presonality Disorders Institute of Cornell University, New York. He is Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College and Director of the Personality Disorders Institute, New York Presbyterian Hospital, as well as Training and Supervising Analyst. okernber (at) med.cornell.edu