Professional Profile
Academics Appointments and Positions
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
Personality Disorders Institute, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Education and Training
Advanced Specialization in Couple and Family Therapy
New York Presbyterian Hospital – Weill Medical College of Cornell University
New York Presbyterian Hospital – Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology (adult and child tracks)
University of Missouri – Columbia
Cornell University
Selected Scholarly Writings
Clarkin, J., Caligor, E., Stern, B.L., & Kernberg, O.F. (2004). The Structured Interview of Personality Organization. Unpublished manuscript available through the Weill Medical College of Cornell University: White Plains, New York.
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Stern, B.L., Caligor, E., Critchfield, K., Maccornack, V., Hoerz, S., Clarkin, J., Lenzenweger, M. F., & Kernberg, O.F. (2010). The Structured Interview of Personality Organization (STIPO): Preliminary psychometrics in a clinical sample. Journal of Personality Assessment, 92(1), p. 35-44.
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Stern, B.L., & Critchfield, K. (2010). Comparing self-reports of parent-child relations and working models of attachment in the incremental prediction of personality disorder symptoms. Under Editorial Review.
Stern, B.L., Kim, Y., Trull, T., Scarpa, A., & Pilkonis, P. (2000). The Inventory of Interpersonal Problems Personality Disorder Scales: Diagnostic efficiency and confirmatory factor results in non-clinical samples. Journal of Personality Assessment, 74, 459-471.
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Caligor, E., Stern, B. L., Hamilton, M., MacCornak, V., Wininger, L., Sneed, J., & Roose, S. P. (2009). Why We Recommend Analytic Treatment for Some Patients and Not Others. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 57(3), 677-694.
Selected Professional Presentations
Stern. B.L., Diamond, D. & Yeomans, F. (2013) Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Annual conference of the American Psychoanalytic Association, New York, New York.
Stern. B.L., Diamond, D. & Yeomans, F. (2011) Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Third International Conference for Transference-Focused Psychotherapy, White Plains, New York.
Stern, B.L., Yeomans, F., Diamond, D., Clarkin, J., & Kernberg, O.F. (2009). Treatment of Narcissistic Pathology with Transference-Focused Psychotherapy. Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Santiago Chile.
Stern, B.L. (2008). An Evidence-based Psychodynamic Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder. Grand Rounds, North Central Bronx Hospital, Bronx, New York.
Stern, B.L. (2006). The Structured Interview of Personality Organization (STIPO): Development, Theory, and Preliminary Psychometrics. Paper given at the 36th annual meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Teaching and Training
Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
Instructor, Theory of Technique III
Contemporary Kleinian Theory and Technique
Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
Course Chair and Instructor, Systemic-Analytic Couple Therapy
Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
Psychotherapy program
Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
Associate Instructor, Psychoanalytic Process II
Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Professional Affiliations
American Psychological Association
Society of Clinical Psychology, Division 12 of the American Psychological Association
International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders
Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine
American Psychoanalytic Association
Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research