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ERIC A. FERTUCK, PH.D.
Curriculum Vitae
Eric A. Fertuck, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
The City College of New York
The City University of New York
160 Convent Avenue
North Academic Center, Room 7/239
New York, NY 10031
Phone: (212) 650-5847
E-mail: [email protected]
Date CV Prepared
November 20, 2011
Personal Data
Place of Birth: Detroit, MI
Citizenship: United States
Academic Training
1992
B.S.
Michigan State University
Psychology, With Honors
1998
Ph.D.
Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies,
Adelphi University
Clinical Psychology
2006
Certificate
Columbia University, Center for Psychoanalytic
Psychoanalysis Training and Research
Psychoanalytic training
Dissertation
Fertuck, E. A., Bucci, W., Blatt, S. J., & Ford, R. Q. (2004). Verbal representation and therapeutic change
among anaclitic and introjective inpatients. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 41(1), 13–25.
Sponsor: Wilma Bucci, Ph.D.
Licensure
1999 to Present
Traineeships
1997 to 1999
1999 to 2001
2001 to 2003
2000 to 2006
2003 to 2006
New York State Licensed Psychologist [# 013946]
Psychology Intern, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Cornell Medical Center,
Westchester Division
Psychology Fellow, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Cornell Medical Center,
Westchester Division
Glass Research Fellow, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training
and Research
Candidate, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Columbia University, College of Physicians and
Surgeons, Department of Psychiatry
Professional Organizations and Societies
Member, American Psychological Association
Member, International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders
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Academic Appointments
2001 to 2003
Fellow of Psychology in Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College
2003 to 2006
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Affective and Related Disorders Fellowship
Program, Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute
2006-2010
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology (in Psychiatry), Department of
Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University
2006-2008
Research Scientist II, New York State Psychiatric Institute
2008-2011
Research Scientist IV, New York State Psychiatric Institute
2006-Present
Faculty, Columbia University Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry
2010-Present
Associate Professor of Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience
Sub-Program, City College of New York, The Graduate Center, City University of New
York
Honors
1992
2000-2005
2001
2003
2003-2008
2008
2009
Grants
2000-2003
Graduated with Honors from Michigan State University
Goldberg Scholarship, Columbia University, Center for Psychoanalytic Training
and Research
Alumni Award for Psychology Fellow Excellence, Department of Psychiatry, Weill
Cornell Medical College
Lionel Ovesey Award, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and
Research and the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine
NIH Clinical Researcher Loan Repayment Program Awardee
John Weber Award for Research Contribution, Columbia University Center for
Psychoanalytic Training and Research
Young Investigator Award, International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders
(ISSPD)
International Psychoanalytic Association Research Fund
Computerized Reflective Function: A Psychotherapy Process Measure
Principal Investigator, Direct Costs: $7,000
2000-2003
Borderline Personality Disorder Research Foundation
Randomized Clinical Trial of Psychotherapy of Borderline Personality Disorder
Co-Investigator (PI: O. Kernberg), Direct Cost: $1,000,000
2003-2007
National Institute of Mental Health (R01 MH62665)
A Prospective Study of Suicidal Behavior in Borderline Personality Disorder
Co-Investigator (PI: B. Stanley), Direct Cost: $2,829,725
2003-2006
National Institute of Mental Health (MH015144)
National Research Service Award Fellowship
Fellow (PI: R. Rieder)
2006-2008
Fund for Psychoanalytic Research, American Psychoanalytic Association
Conscious and Unconscious Processing of Social Stimuli in Borderline Personality
Disorder: An fMRI Study
Principal Investigator, Direct Costs: $34,000
2007-2009
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Standard Research Grant
Cortisol Reactivity in the Prediction of Suicide Attempts in Borderline Personality
Disorder
Principal Investigator, Direct Cost: $59,210
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2007-2012
National Institute of Mental Health K23 MH077044-01A2
Social Neuroscience of Borderline Personality Disorder. Patient Oriented
Mentored Career Development Award
Principal Investigator, Direct Cost: $821,951
2008-2013
National Institute of Mental Health 2R01MH061017-06A2
Project Title: Treating Suicidal Behavior and Self-Mutilation in BPD
Co-Investigator (PI: B. Stanley), Direct Cost: $1,667,357
2010-2011
Neural Systems of Social and Physical Pain in Borderline Personality: Does Rejection
Alter Pain Sensitivity in BPD? Neuropsychoanalysis Foundation.
Role on Project: Principal Investigator, Direct Costs: $11,999
2010-2011
The Neural Basis of Attachment and Reflective Function in Borderline Personality
Disorder
International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA).
Role on Project: Co-PI, Direct Costs: $8,690.00.
2010-2011
Social and Nonsocial Threat Appraisal in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
City College of New York City Seeds Grants
Role on Project: Co-Investigator, Direct Costs: $50,000.00
2012-2013
A Translational Neuroscience Study of Social Learning and Trust Appraisal in
Borderline Personality Disorder
City College of New York City Seeds Grants
Role on Project: Principal Investigator, Direct Costs: $50,000.00
Departmental and University Committees
1996 to 1997
Admissions Committee Member, Derner Institute, Adelphi University
1996 to 1997
Editor, Newsletter for the faculty, students, and staff of the Derner Institute, Adelphi
University
1996 to 1997
Treasurer, Fourth Year Class, Derner Institute, Adelphi University
1998 to 1999
Intern/Fellow Representative, Psychology Education Committee, New York
Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College, Westchester Division
2002 to Present
Member, Research Committee, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic
Training and Research
2009 to Present
Member, Ovesey Award Committee
2011 to Present
Member, Strategic Planning Working Group, City University of New York
Psychology Department
Teaching Experience and Responsibilities
1993 to 1998
Adelphi University, The Learning Center, Graduate Learning Assistant
1999
Cornell University, Department of Psychology, Educational Supervisor, Summer
Externship Program, New York Presbyterian Hospital
Supervised education and clinical placements of 15 Cornell Undergraduates at the
Westchester and Payne Whitney Clinics
2003 to 2006
Columbia University, Department of Neuroscience, Neuropsychology Lab,
Supervision and training of psychometricians
2006 to Present
Clinical Supervisor, Clinical Psychology Externship Program, New York State
Psychiatric Institute, supervised clinical assessment for doctoral level externs
2006 to Present
Faculty, Psychotherapy Program, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic
Training and Research. Instructor in 6 week course in Transference Focused
Eric A. Fertuck, Ph.D.
2008
2009
2009
2009
2010
2010
2010-Present
2011
2011
2011
2011
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Psychotherapy
Reader, Dissertation Committee of Johari Massey, Columbia University, Teachers
College, Columbia University Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology.
Title: Personality traits, family characteristics, and posttraumatic stress disorder in a
sample of maltreated children. Chair: George A. Bonanno.
Reader, Dissertation Committee of Rebecca Prince Kennedy, Columbia University,
Teachers College Columbia University Department of Counseling and Clinical
Psychology. Title: Implementing Evidence-Based Practices into Psychotherapy
Training in Clinical Psychology PhD Programs. Chair: Helen Verdeli
Master’s Thesis Advisor, New York University, Master’s Program in General
Psychology (Inkung Song, MA and Duygu Secil Arac, MA)
Adjunct Professor, Clinical Psychology Sub-Program, The Graduate Center, City
University of New York. Course Taught: Biological Basis of Behavior taught to
Master’s in Counseling and Clinical Psychology Ph.D. students
Master’s Thesis Supervisor, Master’s in Psychology Program of the University of
Maastricht, Netherlands (Annemarie Miano, MS). Title of thesis: Rejection
Sensitivity as a mediator between borderline personality features and negative trait
appraisal
Instructor, Clinical Psychology Subprogram, City College of New York, The Graduate
Center, City University of New York. Courses: Biological Basis of Behavior;
Associate Professor; Clinical Psychology Subprogram, City College of New York, The
Graduate Center, City University of New York. Courses: Biological Basis of Behavior;
Cognition and Affect; Supervision and Consultation; Practicum on Evidence Based
Practice: Transference Focused Psychotherapy
Second Doctoral Exam Reader, Clinical Psychology Subprogram, City College of New
York, The Graduate Center, City University of New York (Gabrielle Cione)
Second Doctoral Exam Reader, Cognitive Neuroscience Subprogram, City College of
New York, The Graduate Center, City University of New York (Ron Whiteman)
Second Doctoral Exam Reader, Clinical Psychology Subprogram, City College of New
York, The Graduate Center, City University of New York (Iris Perach)
Second Doctoral Exam Chair, Clinical Psychology Subprogram, City College of New
York, The Graduate Center, City University of New York (Brian Mueller)
Other Professional Activities
2000 to 2002
Borderline Personality Disorder Research Foundation, New York, NY
Administrative Coordinator and Officer (part time)
Coordinated the Foundation’s communication with its sponsorship of international,
multi-site, and interdisciplinary basic and clinical research projects in borderline
personality disorder (BPD)
2000 to Present
Weill Cornell Medical College, Research Psychotherapist, Transference Focused
Psychotherapy (TFP). Conducting manualized psychotherapy for BPD in three grantfunded trials. Judged “adherent and competent” by treatment developers
2001 and 2002
Invited NIMH Junior Investigator
“New Directions in Borderline Personality” Workshop, July 2001, The Rockefeller
University, May 2002, University of Minnesota
2004
Invited Presenter and Participant, NIMH Think Tank on the More Effective Treatment
of Borderline Personality Disorder.
2009
Chair, Local Organizing Committee, Congress of the International Society for the Study
of Personality Disorders (ISSPD), New York City
Editorial Boards:
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Research Section
International Scholarly Research Network Journals, Psychiatry
Eric A. Fertuck, Ph.D.
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Ad Hoc Reviewer:
Archives of General Psychiatry
Archives of Suicide Research
Clinical Psychology Review
International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Journal of Personality Disorders
Law & Human Behavior
Personality and Mental Health
Psychiatry Research
Psychotherapy: Theory/ Research/ Practice/ Training
Psychological Medicine
Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment
Psychoanalytic Psychology
Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
The International Journal of Psychiatric Medicine
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
Journal of Personality Assessment
Grant Reviewer:
United Kingdom’s National Institute of Health Research (2007)
Professional Staff Congress of CUNY Research Award Program (2011)
Academic Promotion
Reviewer:
Queens College, City University of New York, Department of Psychology
Bibliography
Peer Reviewed Articles
Smith, T., Hull, J., Romanelli, S., Fertuck, E. A., & Weiss, K. (1999). Symptoms and neurocognition as
rate limiters in skills training for psychotic patients. American Journal of Psychiatry, 156, 1817-1818.
Fertuck, E. A., Bucci, W., Blatt, S. J., & Ford, R. Q. (2004). Verbal representation and therapeutic change
among anaclitic and introjective inpatients. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 41(1), 13–25.
Lenzenweger, M. F., Clarkin, J. F., Fertuck, E. A., & Kernberg, O. F. (2004). Executive neurocognitive
functioning and neurobehavioral systems indicators in borderline personality disorder: A preliminary study.
Journal of Personality Disorders, 18(5), 421-438.
Hoermann, S., Clarkin, J. F., Hull, J., & Fertuck, E. A. (2004). Attachment dimensions as predictors of medical
hospitalizations in individuals with cluster B personality disorders. Journal of Personality Disorders, 18(6), 595603.
Fertuck, E. A., Lenzenweger, M. F., Clarkin, J. F., & Stanley, B. (2005). Neurocognition and borderline
personality disorder: Status and future directions. European Journal of Clinical Research [Klinik & Forschung]
11(1), 9-13.
Fertuck, E. A., Lenzenweger, M. F., & Clarkin, J. F. (2005). The association between attentional and executive
controls and the expression of borderline personality disorder features. Psychopathology, 38, 75-81.
Sher, L., Mann J. J., Traskman-Bendz L., Winchel R., Huang Y., Fertuck E. A., Stanley B. (2006). Lower
cerebrospinal fluid homovanillic acid levels in depressed suicide attempters. Journal of Affective Disorders,
90(1), 83-9.
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Wilson, S. W., Fertuck, E. A., Kwittel, A., Stanley, M. C., & Stanley, B. (2006). Impulsivity, suicidality, and
alcohol use disorders in adolescents and young adults with borderline personality disorder. International Journal
of Adolescent Medicine and Health, 18(1), 189-96.
Fertuck, E. A., Marsano-Jozefowicz, S., Stanley, B., Tryon, W., Oquendo, M., Mann, J. J., & Keilp, J. G.
(2006). The impact of anxiety and borderline personality disorder on neuropsychological performance in major
depression. Journal of Personality Disorders. 20(1), 55-70.
Fertuck, E. A., & Stanley, B. (2006). Cognitive disturbance in borderline personality disorder: Phenomenologic,
social cognitive, and neurocognitive findings. Current Psychosis and Therapeutic Reports, 4, 105-111.
Fertuck, E. A., Lenzenweger, M. F., Clarkin, J. F., Hoermann, S., & Stanley, B. (2006). Executive
neurocognition, memory systems, and borderline personality disorder. Clinical Psychology Review, 26, 346–
375.
Fertuck, E. A., Makhija, N. & Stanley, B.S. (2007). The nature of suicidality in borderline personality disorder.
Primary Psychiatry, 14(12).
Fertuck, E. A., Jekal, J., Song, I., Wyman, B., Morris, M. C., Wilson, S. T., Brodsky, B. S., & Stanley, B. (2009).
Enhanced “Reading the Mind in the Eyes” in borderline personality disorder compared to healthy controls.
Psychological Medicine, 39(12), 1979-1988.
Levy, K. N., F. E. Yeomans, Denning, F., & Fertuck, E. A. (2010). UK National Institute for Clinical Excellence
guidelines for the treatment of borderline personality disorder. Personality and Mental Health 4(1): 54-58.
Cione, G.F., Coleburn, L.A., Fertuck, E.A., Fraenkel, P. (2011). Psychodynamic Play Therapy With a Six-Year-Old
African American Boy Diagnosed With ADHD. J. Infant Child Adolesc. Psychother., 10:130-143.
Fertuck, E. A., Keilp, J., Song, I., Wilson, S. W., Brodsky, B. S., & Stanley, B. (2011). Higher executive
control and visual memory performance predict treatment completion in borderline personality disorder.
Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. In press.
Erbe, J., Diamond, D., & Fertuck, E. A. (2011). Mental Representation, Social Cognition, and the Neural
Underpinnings of Borderline Personality Disorder: A Multi-Level Approach. Neuropsychoanalysis. In press.
Fertuck, E. A., Mergenthaler, E., Clarkin, J. F., Levy, K., Target, M. (2011) The development of a computerized
text analysis measure of reflective functioning. Psychotherapy Research. Accepted with minor revisions.
Manuscripts Under Review
Stanley, B., Wilson, S. T., Fertuck, E. A., & Mann, J. J. The impact of suicide attempter status on monoamine
function in Borderline Personality Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder.
Fertuck, E. A., Wilson, S. T., & Stanley, B. An experimental psychopathology approach to evaluating
treatment mechanisms for Borderline Personality Disorder.
Manuscripts in Preparation
Fertuck, E. A., Gittler, B., & Stanley, B. Personality disorder features and anxiety differentially predict the
facial emotion recognition.
Stanley, B., Fertuck, E. A., Keilp, J., & Mann, J. J. Cortisol reactivity to social stress differentiates Borderline
Personality Disorder from Major Depressive Disorder.
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Miano, A., Fertuck, E. A., Arntz, A., & Stanley, B. Elevated rejection sensitivity in borderline personality
compared to major depression and healthy controls.
Broudy, C., Fertuck, E. A., Richardson, R., Stanley, B. Therapeutic alliance in borderline personality disorder.
Goodman, J., Fertuck, E. A., Stanley, B. Emotional abuse and neglect, rejection sensitivity, and borderline
personality disorder.
Fertuck, E. A., Grinband, J., Hirsch, J., Mann, J. J., Wager, T., Ochsner, K., Pilkonis, P. Erbe, J., & Stanley, B.
Trust and fear appraisal in borderline personality disorder.
Chapters and Books
Clarkin, J. F., Fertuck, E. A., Mattis, S, & Hurt, S. (2000). Psychological and neuropsychological assessment.
In Austrian, S. (Ed.) Mental disorders, medications, and clinical social work, 2nd Edition. New York: Columbia
University Press.
Clarkin, J. F., & Fertuck, E. A., (2003). Psychological and neuropsychological assessment. In Hales, R.,
Yudofsky, S. C., & Talbott, J. A. (Eds.) Textbook of Psychiatry (4th Edition), pp. 189-218. Washington, D.C.:
American Psychiatric Press.
Clarkin, J. F., Carpenter, D., & Fertuck, E. A. (2003). The state of family therapy research: A positive
prognosis. In Sholevar, G. P. & Schwoeri, L. D. (Eds.) Textbook of family and marital therapy, pp. 771-795.
Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association Press.
Wilson, S. T., Fertuck, E. A., Kwittel, A., Morris, M. C., Stanley, B. (2006). Borderline personality disorder,
impulsivity, suicidality and alcohol use disorders. In Kandel I., Merrick J., & Sher, L. (Eds.). Adolescence and
Alcohol: An International Perspective. London: Freund, 2006, pp. 39-47.
Sneed, J. R., Fertuck, E. A., Kanellopoulos, D., & Culang, M. E. (in press). Borderline personality disorder. To
appear in P. Sturmey and M. Hersen (Eds.) Handbook of evidence-based practice in clinical psychology.
Volume 2, Adults. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
Yeomans, F. Y., Diamond, D., & Fertuck, E. A. Borderline personality. In Auchincloss, E. L., & Samberg, E.
(in press) Psychoanalytic Terms and Concepts. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Reviews, Editorials, and Commentaries
Fertuck, E. A. (2001). Reconciling intrapersonal and interpersonal experience: The rapprochement of
attachment and object relations theory in understanding the borderline patient [Invited Essay]. PsychologistPsychoanalyst, Summer Issue.
Fertuck, E. A. (2007). Review of “Evidence-based Psychotherapy: Where Theory and Practice Meet.”
Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training. 44(1), 115-116.
Fertuck, E.A. (2008). Review of “The Brain That Changes Itself.” Neuropsychoanalysis, 10, 99-100.
Erbe, J.K., Fertuck, E.A. (2010). Review of B. Stanley & L.J. Siever (2010). The interpersonal dimension of
borderline personality disorder: Toward a neuropeptide model. Am. J. Psychiatry 167:24-39.. J. Amer.
Psychoanal. Assn., 58:580-582.
Erbe, J.K., Fertuck, E.A. (2010). Review of H.W. Koenigsberg, L.J. Siever, H. Lee, S. Pizzarello, A.S. New, M.
Goodman, H. Cheng, J. Flory, & J. Prohovnik (2009). Neural correlates of emotion processing in borderline
personality disorder. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 172:192-199.. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 58:143144.
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Fertuck, E.A. (2010). Falling behind and Catching up with Contemporary Research on Personality Disorders:
Introduction to Lenzenweger. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 58:737-739.
Fertuck, E. A. (2011). The Scientific Study of Unconscious Processes: The Time Is Ripe for
(Re)Convergence of Neuroscientific and Psychoanalytic Conceptions. Neuropsychoanalysis.
Published Abstracts
Fastenau, P. S., Denburg, N. L., & Fertuck, E. A. (1993). Sex differences in auditory and visual processing
across the lifespan: Extension of Coltheart, Hull, and Slater. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the
American Psychological Association, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 7, 352353.
Denburg, N. L., Fastenau, P. S., & Fertuck, E. A. (1994). Cowboy Story: Resistance to aging found in reading
memory. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society,
Cincinnati,OH. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 1, 380.
Fertuck, E. A., Mergenthaler, E., Target, M., & Clarkin, J. F. (2004). Initial validity of a computerized text
analysis measure of reflective function. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 52(4), 1215-1217.
Fertuck, E. A., Target, M., Mergenthaler, E., & Clarkin, J. F. (2004). The development of a computerized
linguistic analysis instrument of the reflective functioning measure. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic
Association, 52(2), 473-475.
Fertuck, E. A., Mann, J. J., & Stanley, B. (2005). The role of suicide attempter status on homovanillic acid
levels in borderline personality disorder, major depressive disorder, and controls. Biological Psychiatry,
57S(8S), 190S.
Fertuck, E. A., Marsano-Jozefowicz, S., Stanley, B., Tryon, W., Oquendo, M., Mann, J. J., & Keilp, J. K.
(2005). The impact of anxiety and borderline personality disorder on neuropsychological performance in major
depression. Biological Psychiatry, 57(8S), 190S-191S.
Stanley, B., Fertuck, E. A., Wilson, S., & Mann, J. J. (2005). The impact of suicide attempter status on
serotonergic function in borderline personality disorder, major depressive disorder, and controls. Biological
Psychiatry, 57(8S), 188S.
Wyman, B., Fertuck, E. A., & Stanley, B. (2009). Borderline personality disorder features and anxiety are
associated with enhanced "Reading the Mind in the Eyes" in nonclinical adults. Journal of the American
Psychoanalytic Association, 57(5), 1179-1184.
Fertuck, E. A., Grinband, J., Hirsch, J., Mann, J. J., & Stanley, B. (2009). Trust and fear appraisal in borderline
personality disorder: Preliminary psychophysical findings with an fMRI compatible task. NeuroImage,
47(Supplement 1), S71.
Invited Presentations:
Fertuck, E. A. (2002). Language and therapeutic change. Colloquium presentation at the Doctoral Program in
Clinical Psychology, Long Island University.
Fertuck, E. A., Target, M., Mergenthaler, E., & Clarkin, J. F. (2003). The development of a computerized
reflective function measure. [Invited Presentation]. Annual Conference on Empirical
Studies in Psychoanalysis, University of Ulm, Germany.
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Fertuck, E. A., & Stanley, B. (2004). Executive cognitive inhibition and memory systems in BPD: Implications
for treatment studies. Paper presented at the NIMH Think Tank on the More Effective Treatment of Borderline
Personality Disorder. Conference Center at the Maritime Institute, Linthicum Heights, Maryland.
Fertuck, E. A. Treating interpersonal problems with Transference Focused Psychotherapy. Paper presented at
the Cutting Edge Treatments for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Symposium with Dr. Marsha Linehan and
Columbia University Faculty.
Fertuck, E. A., Grinband, J., Hirsch, J., Mann, J. J., & Stanley, B. (2008). Social neuroscience of borderline
personality disorder. Neuropsychology Colloquia Series, Queens College, City University of New York.
Fertuck, E. A., Grinband, J., Hirsch, J., Mann, J. J., Wager, T., Ochsner, K., Pilkonis, P. & Stanley, B. (2009).
A social cognitive neuroscience approach to borderline personality disorder. Paper presented at the Bi-Annual
Congress of the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders as the recipient of the Congress’s
Young Investigator Award.
Fertuck, E. A. (2010). Discussant of H. Berlin's Paper on Neural Correlates of Unconscious Processes. Arnold
Pfeffer Center, Neuropsychoanalysis Monthly Lecture Series, New York, NY.
Fertuck, E. A. Grinband, J., Hirsch, J., Mann, J. J., Wager, T., Ochsner, K., Pilkonis, P. Erbe, J., & Stanley, B.
(2010). Trait and Emotion Appraisal in Borderline Personality Disorder: Social Psychological and Neural
Findings. Panel: Testing Psychoanalysis in the Scanner: Current Neuropsychoanalytic Research. Arnold Pfeffer
Center, Neuropsychoanalysis Monthly Lecture Series, New York, NY.
Fertuck, E. A., Grinband, J., Hirsch, J., Mann, J. J., Wager, T., Ochsner, K., Pilkonis, P. Erbe, J., & Stanley, B.
(2010). Facial appraisal in borderline personality disorder. Paper presented at the City College of the City
University of New York Psychology Colloquium Series. New York, NY.
Conference Presentations:
Fertuck, E. A., Bucci, W., Blatt, S. J., & Ford, R. Q. (1999). Verbal representation and therapeutic change:
Further analysis of the Austen Riggs -Yale Project. Paper presented at the Mid-Atlantic meeting of the Society
for Psychotherapy Research, University of Maryland.
Fertuck, E. A., Lenzwenweger, M. F., Clarkin, J. F., Levy, K. N., & Hoermann, S. (2002). Cognitive inhibition
and Borderline Personality Disorder: A preliminary report. Poster presented at NIMH New Directions In
Borderline Personality Disorder II. University of Minnesota, May, 2002.
Fertuck, E. A., Target, M., Mergenthaler, E., & Clarkin, J. F. (2002). Computerized reflective function: A
psychotherapy process measure. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research,
June 2002, Santa Barbara, CA.
Fertuck, E. A., Target, M., Mergenthaler, E., & Clarkin, J. F. (2003). The development of a computerized
reflective function measure. Poster presented at the Winter Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic
Association, New York, NY.
Fertuck, E A. (1996). Concurrent and predictive validity of computerized measures of language structure
among anaclitic and introjective inpatients. In W. Bucci (Chair), Linguistic indicators of clinical change.
Symposium conducted at the meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, PA.
Hoermann, S., Clarkin, J. F., Fertuck, E. A., & Hull, J. W. (2002). The association of Cluster B
comorbidity, attachment style, and therapeutic alliance with psychotherapy use in individuals with
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borderline personality disorder. Poster presented at the conference of the Society for Psychotherapy Research,
June 2002, Santa Barbara, CA.
Fertuck, E. A., Mergenthaler, E., Target, M., & Clarkin, J. F. (2004). Initial validity of a computerized
reflective function measure. Poster presented at the Winter Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic
Association, New York, NY.
Fertuck, E. A., Bucci, W., & Blatt, S. J. (2005). An empirical foray into the macroprocesses of psychoanalytic
treatment: Evidence for differential modes of therapeutic action. [Invited Presentation]. Panel Discussion, the
Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine, New York, NY.
Fertuck, E. A., Mann, J. J., & Stanley, B. (2005). The role of suicide attempter status on homovanillic acid
levels in borderline personality disorder, major depressive disorder, and controls. Poster presented at the Annual
Meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry, Atlanta, GA.
Fertuck, E. A., Marsano-Jozefowicz, S., Stanley, B., Tryon, W., Oquendo, M., Mann, J. J., & Keilp, J. K.
(2005). The impact of anxiety and borderline personality disorder on neuropsychological performance in major
depression. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry, Atlanta, GA.
Stanley, B., Fertuck, E. A., Wilson, S., & Mann, J. J. (2005). The impact of suicide attempter status on
serotonergic function in borderline personality disorder, major depressive disorder, and controls. Poster
presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry, Atlanta, GA.
Fertuck, E. A., Keilp, J. G., Stanley, B., Kwitel, A., Gittler, B., Stanley, M., & Groves, S. (2006). Investigating
social stress reactivity in borderline personality disorder and mood disorder with suicidality: safety, validity, and
preliminary findings. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science,
New York, NY.
Fertuck, E. A. & Stanley, B. (Co-Chairs). (2007). Symposium “Laboratory Approaches to Borderline
Personality Disorder: Implications for Understanding Mechanisms and Treatment”.
Fertuck, E. A., Keilp, J., Gittler, B., Velaszuez, C., Kwitel, A., Makhija, N., & Stanley, B. (2007). Stress
Responsivity and Emotional Sensitivity in BPD. In Symposium “Laboratory Approaches to Borderline
Personality Disorder: Implications for Understanding Mechanisms and Treatment” (E. Fertuck and B. Stanley,
Co-chairs). Fall meeting of the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders.
Fertuck, E. A., Mann, J. J., Hirsch, J., Grinband, J., Gittler, B., & Stanley, B. (2007). Social Cognition and
Emotional Sensitivity in Borderline Personality Disorder: Clinical and Developmental Perspectives. In
Symposium “Developmental Psychopathology Approaches to Borderline Personality Disorder: Current Progress
and Future Directions” (G. Han Chair). Fall meeting of the Society for the Study of Human Development.
Wyman, B., Fertuck, E. A., & Stanley, B. (2008). Borderline personality disorder features, anxiety, and
heightened facial emotion recognition. Poster presented at the Winter Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic
Association, New York, NY.
Stanley, B., Fertuck, E. A., Keilp, J., Wilson, S. T., Oquendo, M., & Mann, J. J. Stress Response Differs in
Suicide Attempters with Borderline Personality Disorder from Attempters with Major Depression. Poster
presented at the Fall meeting of the Society for the Study of Human Development. European Symposium on
Suicide and Suicidal Behavior (ESSSB), September 2008.
Fertuck, E. A., Grinband, J., Hirsch, J., Mann, J. J., & Stanley, B. (2009). Convergence of psychoanalytic and
social neuroscience approaches to borderline personality disorder. Panel (Chair, E. Fertuck) Winter Meeting of
the American Psychoanalytic Association.
Eric A. Fertuck, Ph.D.
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Fertuck, E. A., Grinband, J., Hirsch, J., Mann, J. J., & Stanley, B. (2009). Trust and fear appraisal in borderline
personality disorder: Preliminary psychophysical findings with an fMRI compatible task. Poster presented at the
Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping.
Fertuck, E. A., Grinband, J., Hirsch, J., Mann, J. J., Wager, T., Ochsner, K., Pilkonis, P. & Stanley, B. (2009).
Trust and fear appraisal in borderline personality disorder: Preliminary psychophysical findings with an fMRI
compatible task. Paper presented at the Congress of the International Society for the Study of Personality
Disorders, New York, NY.
Fertuck, E. A., Grinband, J., Hirsch, J., Mann, J. J., Wager, T., Ochsner, K., Pilkonis, P. Erbe, J. & Stanley, B.
(2010). Trust and fear appraisal in borderline personality disorder: Preliminary fMRI findings. Poster presented
at the Meeting of the Society for Biological Psychiatry, New Orleans, LA.
Fertuck, E. A., Grinband, J., Hirsch, J., Mann, J. J., Wager, T., Ochsner, K., Pilkonis, P. Erbe, J., & Stanley, B.
(2010). Trust and fear appraisal in borderline personality disorder. Panel Presentation, Social Cognition and
Emotion Regulation in Borderline Personality Disorder (Chair: Sieswerda, S.). World Congress of Behavioral
and Cognitive Therapies, Boston, MA.
Fertuck, E. A., Grinband, J., Hirsch, J., Mann, J. J., Wager, T., Ochsner, K., Pilkonis, P. Erbe, J., & Stanley, B.
(2010). Trust and fear appraisal in borderline personality disorder. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of
the Society for Neuroscience. San Diego, CA.
Fertuck, E. A., Grinband, J., Hirsch, J., Mann, J. J., Wager, T., Ochsner, K., Pilkonis, P. Erbe, J., & Stanley, B.
(2011). Trust and fear appraisal in borderline personality disorder. Panel Presentation, Emotional Concomitants
of psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder (Chair: Grenyer, B.). Congress of the International
Society for the Study of Personality Disorders, Melbourne, Australia.
Fertuck, E. A. (2011). Transference Focused Psychotherapy for BPD. Panel Presentation, What’s the
Difference that Makes the Difference? Commonalities and Differences across Efficacious Treatments for BPD
(Chairs: Dimeff, L. & Porr, V.) Congress of the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders,
Melbourne, Australia.
Fertuck, E. A. (2011). The Essence of Transference Focused Psychotherapy for BPD. Panel Presentation, Four
Empirically Supported Treatments for BPD Address a ‘Real-World’ Clinical Situation (Chairs: Beatson, J. &
Rao, S.) Congress of the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders, Melbourne, Australia.
Fertuck, E. A. (2011). Social Cognitive Neuroscience and TFP- A Bridge too Far? Panel Presentation, Panel
Discussion on Neurobiological Aspects of BPD. (Chair: J. Clarkin) Congress of the International Society
Transference Focused Psychotherapy, White Plains, New York.