Deborah L. Cabaniss, MD

Dr. Cabaniss is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia, where she teaches and supervises psychiatry residents. Until 2025, she was Associate Director of Residency Training in the Department of Psychiatry. She is also a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Columbia University Center for Training and Research.

Dr. Cabaniss' research interests primarily involve psychoanalytic and psychiatric education, and she has authored many books and articles on this topic. She has been the recipient of many teaching awards, including a 2014 Presidential Teaching Award for Outstanding Teaching from Columbia University. She is a two-time Teichner Scholar of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry and is an author of “Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Clinical Manual,” "Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: An Expanded Approach," and "Different Patients; Different Therapies," which have been widely translated and are core reading in psychiatry residencies across the country and abroad. She has a private practice in Manhattan, focusing on psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.