Dr. Young is founder and Director of the Cognitive
Therapy Center of New York and the Schema Therapy
Institute. He is also on the faculty of the Department
of Psychiatry at Columbia University College of
Physicians and Surgeons.
He received his undergraduate training at Yale University
and his graduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania.
He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the
Center for Cognitive Therapy at the University of
Pennsylvania with Dr. Aaron Beck, and went on to
serve there as Director of Research and Training.
Dr. Young has lectured on cognitive and schema therapies
internationally for over 20 years. He has trained
thousands of mental health professionals, and is
widely acclaimed for his outstanding teaching skills.
Dr. Young was awarded the prestigious NEEI Mental
Health Educator of the Year award.
Dr. Young is the founder of Schema Therapy, an integrative
approach for personality disorders and treatment-resistant
patients. He has published widely in the fields
of both cognitive and schema therapies, including
two major books: Schema Therapy: A Practitioner's
Guide, written for mental health professionals,
and Reinventing Your Life, a popular self-help
book based on schema therapy.
Dr. Young is co-author of a psychotherapy outcome
study evaluating the effectiveness of CT in comparison
to antidepressant medication.
He has also served as consultant on many cognitive
and schema therapy research grants,  including
the NIMH Collaborative Study of Depression, and
was on the editorial boards of journals including
Cognitive Therapy and Research and Cognitive & Behavioral
Practice. Dr. Young is the cofounder of the International
Society for Schema Therapy, and is a Founding Fellow
of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. |
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