Andrew Gerber

Andrew J. Gerber is the Medical Director/CEO of the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and an Associate Clinical Professor in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City.
Dr. Gerber completed his PhD in Psychology at the Anna Freud Centre and University College London where he studied with Peter Fonagy and Joseph Sandler, investigating the process and outcome of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy in young adults. He completed his medical and psychiatric training at Harvard Medical School, Cambridge Hospital, and Weill Cornell and Columbia University medical schools and his psychoanalytic training at Columbia University.
Dr. Gerber trained as a research fellow with Bradley Peterson at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, focusing on brain imaging and child psychiatry. He has published and received grants in the areas of developmental psychopathology, attachment, and functional neuroimaging of dynamic processes, including social cognition and transference. Dr. Gerber has also been involved in planning and teaching psychoanalytic research as head of the Science Department at the American Psychoanalytic Association and chair of the Committee on Scientific Activities, secretary of the Psychoanalytic Psychodynamic Research Society, and a member of the psychotherapy research committees of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Dr. Gerber is the former co-director of the Sackler Parent-Infant Program at Columbia University, former director of the MRI Research Program at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, and former Director of Research at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.