Eve Caligor MD

Eve Caligor, M.D. is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Director of the Psychotherapy Division at the Center. Dr. Caligor has published widely on the evaluation and treatment of personality pathology, the evaluation and selection of patients for psychoanalysis, and psychoanalytic and psychotherapy outcome. She is co-author of the Structured Interview for Personality Organization (STIPO), a semi-structured interview for evaluation of personality pathology, and co-investigator on a pilot study evaluating the feasibility of conducting a randomized clinical trial of cognitive behavioral therapy, supportive expressive psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Dr. Caligor is first author of the Handbook of Dynamic Psychotherapy for Higher Level Personality Pathology, American Psychiatric Publishing, which has been translated into Italian, German and Portuguese. She has received numerous teaching awards, including the Irma Bland Award from the American Psychiatric Association and teacher of the year awards from residents and candidates at Columbia. She has served on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and is first author of the paper, The interpretive process in the psychodynamic psychotherapy of patients with borderline personality disorder, which was awarded the JAPA prize. Dr. Caligor is a member of the American College of Psychiatrists and of the APA Caucus on Psychotherapy, and she serves on the Committee on Psychotherapy of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP). She is a consultant to the Personality Disorders Institute of the Weill Cornell Medical College.