Andrew Lotterman, M.D.

Andrew Lotterman, M.D. is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University, and a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He also is an Attending Psychiatrist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute.

 Dr. Lotterman graduated Yale College, Magna Cum Laude with High Honors in Philosophy and Psychology. As an undergraduate he conducted research in psychology with a grant from the National Science Foundation. Dr. Lotterman attended medical school at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and trained in Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. While a medical student Dr. Lotterman developed a scale to measure Psychological Mindedness, which has been used frequently in research. Later, he was a member of the Borderline Research Group at New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center, Westchester Division. Dr. Lotterman trained as a psychoanalyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Research from 1990 - 1995. He received the Beller Award for Contribution to the Psychoanalytic Literature for his book Specific Techniques for the Psychotherapy of Schizophrenic Patients (International Universities Press, 1996).

 Dr. Lotterman has had three areas of special interest: psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, psychological research, and psychotherapy with severely ill patients, and has published papers in each. 

 Dr. Lotterman has also presented papers at many professional meetings including a two day colloquium at the University of Denmark focusing on his book, a Special Lecture at the International Society for the Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia in Madrid, an invited lecture atThe William Alanson White Institute, a symposium at the Department of Psychiatry at New York University, and a panel on psychotherapy with severely ill patients at the American Psychoanalytic Association

 Dr. Lotterman has been the chairman of the Outreach Committee, and a member of the Curriculum Committee and the the Selection Committee at the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.

 Dr. Lotterman has been a teacher in the Advanced Theory and Concepts Course, the Clinical Theory and Technique Course, the Psychoanalytic Process Course, the Psychotherapy Teaching Program and he has taught two elective courses on Psychotherapy with Schizophrenic Patients, and Psychological Theories of Intimacy at the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center. Dr. Lotterman has supervised graduate students in Clinical Psychology and Psychiatric Residents for many years. He now supervises psychoanalytic trainees at the Columbia University Psychoanalytic Center