Writings

Stern, B.L. (2024).  The Fact of the Matter: Working with Activated Internal Object Relations in Psychodynamic Couple Therapy.   Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. 

Diamond, D., Yeomans F., Stern, B. & Kernberg, O.F.  (2022).  Treating Pathological Narcissism with Transference-Focused Psychotherapy.  New York:  Guilford Press.    

Caligor, E., & Stern, B.L. (2020).    Diagnosis, Classification, and Assessment of Narcissistic Personality Disorder within the Framework of Object Relations Theory.  J of Personality Disorders, Special Issue, 104, p. 104-121.

Stern, B.L., Yeomans, F.E. (2018).  The Psychodynamic Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder:  an Introduction to Transference-Focused Psychotherapy.   Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 41, 207 -223.

Stern, B. L., Diamond, D., & Yeomans, F.E. (2018).  Position Paper:  Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) for Narcissistic Personality.   Current Treatment Options in Psychiatry, 5, 275-289. 

Stern, B.L., Caligor, E., Horz-Stagsetter, S. & Clarkin, J. (2018).  An object-relations based model for the assessment of borderline psychopathology.  Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 41(4), 595-611.

Stern, B. L., Diamond, D., & Yeomans, F. E. (2017). Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) for Narcissistic Personality: Engaging Patients in the Early Treatment Process.  Psychoanalytic Psychology, 34(4), 381-396.

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 Unpublished manuscript available through the Weill Medical College of Cornell University: White Plains, New York.

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.

Presentations

Stern, B.L. (2024).  The structural and functional assessment of narcissistic personality disorder.  The Multiple Faces of Narcissism: Conceptualization and Treatment, TFP – New York (online conference).

Stern, B.L. (2021).  The challenge of narcissistic personality in object relations couple therapy.  Understanding Narcissism: From Health to Disordered.  Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Mclean Hospital (online conference).

Stern, B.L. (2021).   The Structural, functional and clinical assessment of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.  Narcissistic Personality Disorder Within the Framework of Object Relations Theory:  Current Perspectives.  TFP New-York (online conference). 

Stern, B.L. (2018).  Working with shame and narcissistic pathology using Transference-Focused Psychotherapy.  Narcissistic Personality Disorder Conference, Borderline Personality Disorder Training Institute at Mclean Hospital, Waltham, MA, March, 2018.

Diamond, D., & Stern, B. L. (2016).  TFP with Narcissistic Patients. 4th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Transference-Focused Psychotherapy.  Training presented at the New York Academy of Medicine, New York.

Stern, B. L., & Caligor, E. (2016).  Structural Diagnosis in TFP:  “Structured and “Unstructured” approaches.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association.  Atlanta, Ga.

Teaching

Assessment for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (Fall 2023 – present).  Course-chair and Instructor. Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.

Two-year training course in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (2022 – present), Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Psychotherapy Division. 

Transference-Focused Psychotherapy case consultation group, co-consultant (2021 – 2024)  TFP – New York.

Object-relations-based Couple Therapy (Winter 2020).  Course-chair and Instructor. Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, CME course for faculty. 

Systemic-Analytic Couple Therapy (Spring 2020, 2018, 2012).  Course-chair and Instructor. Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.

Systemic-Analytic Couple Therapy (2021).  Mini-course.  Course-chair and Instructor. Harvard University Medical School, Mclean Hospital.

Transference-Focused Psychotherapy case consultation group, consultant (2020-2021).  Harvard University Medical School, Mclean Hospital, Gunderson Residence.

Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Personality Disorders (Spring, 2022).   Course Co-Chair & Instructor. William Alanson White Institute.