Academic positions:
Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University (2004 - present)
Training and supervising analyst at Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (2011 - present)
Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College Department of Psychiatry (2000 - 2025)
Administrative responsibilities:
Chair of Admissions Committee, member of Executive Committee at Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (2012 - 2018 )
Class mentor (2007-12)
Chief Resident (Cornell, 1997-98)
Awards:
Teacher of the Year Award 2015
O'Conner Award for teaching medical students of psychodynamic concepts at Cornell and Columbia 2013
Faculty's award for Best Psychiatric Resident 1998 at Weill Cornell Medical College, New York-Presbyterian Hospital Westchester Division
Courses taught:
Sexuality and aging ( Weill-Cornell Medical College ; 1998 - 2020 )
Personality disorders in the elderly (Cornell, 1998 - 2020 )
Introduction to object relations theory (Columbia 2004 - 2010)
Adult development (Columbia 2004 - 2010 )
Introductory lectures to psychodynamic psychotherapy (Columbia, 2005 - 2011)
Introduction to Transference Focused Psychotherapy (St Luke's - Roosevelt, 2004-2009)
Brain and Mind course preceptor for medical students of Weill-Cornell Medical College (2000-2021)
Psychoanalytic Process at Columbia Ctr for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, 2013-2023 including Termination Phase of Psychoanalysis as part of Psychoanalytic Process, 2024
USA and European educational responsibilities:
Transference Focused Psychotherapy teacher and supervisor teaching courses in Budapest and supervise psychiatrists and psychologists, since 2015
Supervising European psychiatrists and psychologists via Skype, then Zoom
Teacher at Psychodynamic Psychotherapy program at Columbia Adult Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program since 2010 including Transference Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline Personalities and Narcissistic Pathology
Supervising psychoanalytic candidates at Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research since 2011
As member of ISTFP Education and Training Committee I have been teaching internationally those TFP therapists who work towards becoming Trainer/Supervisor of TFP. I have been conducting numerous exams for future TFP therapists in the USA and internationally.
Research and publications:
Leader of psychopharmacology arm of randomized clinical trial of borderline personality disorders 2000-2005
(Principal investigators Otto Kernberg, John Clarkin, Ken Levy)
Research grant from the International Psychoanalytic Association to study the relation between personality organization and sexual behavior resulting in the development of a short questionnaire
(initial findings were presented on the IPA website in 2002 and the instrument was presented in 2022 at the ISTFP online conference see below)
Fogarty Fellow, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) 1989-1992 studying AIDS dementia
Publications in peer reviewed journals/book chapter:
Conversion to transference focused psychotherapy from other treatments by the same therapist - pitfalls and benefits.
Judit Lendvay, M.D. and George Brownstone, M.D. in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy 50(4) 622-638, 202
Article on Asexuality in SEKSUALNOSC I PROBLEMY SEKSUALNE Z PERSPEKTYWY PSYCHODYNAMICZNEJ PWN 2017 Chapter 13
Publications on HIV/AIDS at the NIH:
E.A. Murray, D.M.Rausch, J.Lendvay, L.R. Sharer, L.E. Eiden:
Cognitive and motor impairments associated with SIV infection in Rhesus monkeys
Science, Vol 225, pp.1246-49 March 6, 1992
D.M. Rausch, J.D. Lifson, M.P. Padgett, B. Chandrasekhar, J. Lendvay, K.M. Hwang, L.E. Eiden:
Structural requirements for blockade of HIV infection, blockade of HIV-induced syncytium formation and virostatic activity in vitro
Biochemical Pharmacology, Vol 43, No.8, pp. 1985-1976, 1992
Presentations about my work with HIV/AIDS at the NIH and in Hungary:
Poster presentation at the VII International Conference on AIDS, Florence, 1991 W.A. 1032
Effects on viral antigenemia virus rescue and immune status during and following multi-dose GLQ223 administration in SIV infected Rhesus Macaques and several other abstracts collaborating with the NIMH team
D. Banhegyi, J. Szlavik, J. Lendvay , E. Mistkovits, Zs. Gerley: Symptomatic HIV/AIDS patient care in Hungary
(VIII. International AIDS Conference, Amsterdam, 1992, PoB 3713 Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia. Annual conference of Hungarian infectologists, 1988
Zenthel - Effective treatment for echinococcosis. East-European Conference on Infectious Diseases, Pestien, Slovakia 1987
Presentations:
Psychoanalysis and medication, ApsaA Conference, 2012
Development of a short, object relations based sexual behavior questionnaire, PRAC, with preliminary results on personality organization and sexual behavior - Judit Lendvay, Pamela Foelsch and John Clarkin.
2022, oral presentation at the ISTFP online conference