He is a psychologist, an educator, a doctor of social sciences, a certified psychotherapy supervisor of the Polish Psychological Society and the Polish Society for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, a certified psychotherapy supervisor-teacher of the International Society of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy, a certified psychodynamic psychotherapist of the Krakow Association for the Development of Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, a certified psychotherapist of the European Society for Psychotherapy, and has a specialization in child and adolescent psychotherapy.
He is a co-founder of the Krakow Psychodynamic Center, its lecturer, didactician, supervisor and individual psychotherapist. He was president of the Polish Society for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for two terms, has been a member of the Board of the Psychotherapy Section of the Polish Psychological Society for more than a dozen years, and has currently served as president of the Board of the Polish TFP Society for a year.
He is a member of the State Commission for Medical Examinations in the field of child and adolescent psychotherapy and a member of the expert panel on psychodynamic psychotherapy at the National Consultant in Psychotherapy.
He is a psychoanalyst, professor of psychiatry at Weill Medical College, Cornell University, and a training and supervising analyst at Columbia University’s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He is the current director of the Institute for Personality Disorders at The New York Presbyterian Hospital, Westchester Division.
Among other past positions, he has served as director of C.F. Menninger Memorial Hospital, supervising and training analyst at the Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis, and director of the Psychotherapy Research Project at the Menninger Foundation. A former president of the International Psychoanalytic Association from 1997 to 2001, he was editor of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association from 1977 to 1993.
Author of the concept of borderline personality organization and its treatment method, Transerence-Focused Psychotherapy. Author of 13 books and co-author of 12 others.
He received the 1972 Heinz Hartmann Award from the New York Institute and Society for Psychoanalysis, the 1975 Edward A. Strecker Award from the Pennsylvania Hospital Institute, the 1981 George E. Daniels Award from the Society for Psychoanalytic Medicine, the William F. Schonfeld Award from the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry, the 1986 Van Gieson Award from the New York State Psychiatric Institute, the 1987 and 1996 Teacher of the Year Awards from The New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center, Westchester Division, and the Mary S. Sigourney Award for Psychoanalysis in 1990.
He is clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, director of training at the Weill-Cornell Institute for Personality Disorders, and adjunct clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
He is president of the International Society for Transference-Focused Psychotherapy, a member of the Education Committee of Emotions Matter (a support group for people with BPD), an honorary member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and a former chairman of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry Committee on Psychotherapy. For ten years he headed a specialized unit for patients with borderline personality disorder at Weill Cornell Medical Center.
He is interested in the development, research, teaching and practice of psychotherapy for personality disorders. He has taught and helped develop training programs in psychodynamic therapy for personality disorders in many countries. He is a regular teacher and lecturer at APA annual meetings.
Psychiatrist at CSM Molina de Segura
Psychiatrist on call at Hospital Morales Meseguer (Murcia)
Founder and former chair of the Personality Disorders Unit (Murcia)
Co-chair of the Traaining and Education Committee of the ISTFP
Member of the ISTFP Board
Member of the sub-committee on supervision of the ISTFP
ISTFP Supervisor
Director of TFP Murcia
Co-Chair of TFP Hispanoamerica
Professor at TFP Prague
She is a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist and psychoanalyst, and emerita assoc. prof. of the Department of Psychiatry, VU Medical Centre, Amsterdam, now working in private practice. As researcher she focused on childhood (sexual) trauma and its consequences. She is honorary member of the Dutch Society for Psychotherapy, a certified psychotherapy supervisor of the Dutch Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Teacher-Supervisor of TFP Netherlands. She has been member of the Board of the International Society of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy since its very beginning. She has taught psychodynamic therapy for personality disorders and TFP extensively, both in The Netherlands as well as in several countries. She was a member of the Health Council of the Netherlands, Advisory board for the Dutch Ministry of Health (2004) on ‘Recovered memories’ and (2011) on ‘Treatment of the effects of child abuse’. She was a member of the Dutch Committee on Child Sexual Abuse in the Roman Catholic Church (2011). She received the Mental Health National Award in the Netherlands (1989) for special achievements in the field of mental health by the Dutch National Foundation of Mental Health (NFGV) because of her research on the impact of child sexual abuse. The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) granted her the David Caul Memorial Award in 1993 and the Morton Prince Award in 1994 for her research in the field of dissociative disorders; she became ISSTD Fellow in 2011 for her work in the field of dissociation. She recently received a Dutch Royal Decoration for her contribution to Mental Health Care in the case of trauma (2025).