Richard G. Hersh MD

Dr. Hersh received his undergraduate B.A. degree in History from Stanford University and his M.D. degree from George Washington University. He completed his residency training in psychiatry at Northwestern University and earned a certificate in psychoanalytic training from the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Dr. Hersh was an attending psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospitals while an Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School before coming to Columbia University Medical Center where he was a psychiatrist on the inpatient service before serving for fifteen years as the Associate Director of the Department of Psychiatry's Intensive Outpatient Program.

Dr. Hersh has been trained in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) for treatment of personality disorders and has fulfilled the requirements for Teacher and Supervisor status for TFP. Dr. Hersh has also been trained in Good Psychiatric Management for Borderline Personality Disorder (GPM) and has fulfilled the requirements of Official Trainer status for GPM. Dr. Hersh teaches both TFP and GPM in the Columbia Psychiatry residency curriculum. Dr. Hersh serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder (NEA-BPD). He recently co-authored the textbook "Fundamentals of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy: Applications in Psychiatric and Medical Settings" published in 2017 by Springer.
Dr. Hersh was named Columbia University Psychiatry Residency Teacher of the Year in 2012 and received the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research Lionel Ovesey Award in 2012. Dr. Hersh has been a supervisor in the Columbia Psychiatry Residency Psychopharmacology and Long-term Psychotherapy programs.