PSI: Who we are
The Personality Studies Institute is a community
of clinicians interested in the relation between
personality, emotional adjustment, and mental
health. For each of us, the individual’s personality
their sense of identity, characteristic
tendencies in responding to the world, and
the strategies employed in managing the emotional
stresses associated with everyday life is
the central lens through which the problems
patients bring to psychotherapy are conceptualized
and addressed.
We come from a variety of disciplines, including
psychology, social work, and psychiatry. We
all share an interest in the assessment, diagnosis,
and treatment of personality difficulties
and disorders (which are often experienced
as anxiety and depression) and maintain this
common interest by training, teaching, and
learning together. We maintain independent
private practices, and collectively, have
experience working with individual across
the life-span in a variety of therapeutic
modalities, including supportive psychodynamic
psychotherapy, psychoanalytic psychotherapy,
psychoanalysis, group therapy, dialectical
behavior therapy, couple therapy, and integrative
treatments. Members of our group have also
pioneered the development of Transference-Focused
Psychotherapy, a twice-weekly, intensive
treatment for borderline personality disorder.
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