Richard G Hersh, MD

Dr. Hersh received his undergraduate BA degree in History from Stanford University and his MD 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 TFP in the Columbia Psychiatry residency curriculum.

Dr. Hersh co-authored with Drs. Eve Caligor and Frank Yeomans the textbook Fundamentals of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy: Applications in Psychiatric and Medical Settings published in 2016 by Springer and co-edited with Dr. Chiara De Panfilis Implementing Transference-Focused Psychotherapy: General Psychiatric Care for Personality Disorders published in 2025 by Springer.