Listening to Attachment: A Tribute to Joseph Lichtenberg

Professor Emerita at the City University of New York, and on the faculty of the New School for Social Research, the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (NPSI) and the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is also senior fellow in the Personality Disorders Institute (PDI) at Weill Cornell Medical College. The particular focus of Dr. Diamond’s work is on the impact of attachment status and pathological narcissism on the treatment process and outcome, and the changes in attachment and mentalization in patients with personality disorders over the course of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The author or co-author of four books, including most recently Treating Pathological Narcissism with Transference Focused Psychotherapy (Guilford Press, 2021). She is the recipient of several awards, including most recently, the Aaron Stern Distinguished Professorship lecture award from Weill Cornell Medical College in recognition of her contributions in further understanding of the etiology, pathology, and treatment of narcissism. She is an honorary member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and a graduate of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is in private practice in New York City and Sag Harbor, New York.