Jillian M. Stile, Ph.D.
Candidate, Adult Psychoanalysis
Private Office
815 Park Avenue, Suite 1B
New York, NY 10021
Areas of Interest
Psychoanalysis and emerging adulthood.
Integration of psychoanalysis with mindfulness studies and attention to cultural context.
Professional Biography
Jillian M. Stile, Ph.D. is a Clinical Psychologist who specializes in work with adolescents and young adults, with a focus on the challenges attendant to the complex transitions from high school to college and the less widely discussed transition from college to young adult life.
Dr. Stile received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the New School for Social Research, and Masters degrees in Mental Health and Behavioral Medicine from Boston University School of Medicine and in Psychology from the New School for Social Research. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship in University Mental Health at Sarah Lawrence College Counseling and Psychological Services and her Predoctoral Internship at Fordham University Counseling and Psychological Services, where she cultivated her skills and interest in work with people facing the challenges of emerging adulthood.
Dr. Stile participated in a Psychoanalytic Fellowship at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, where she is currently a psychoanalyst in training in adult psychoanalysis. She is in private practice on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Selected Presentations and Publications
Altman, N. & Stile, J.M. (2015). Staying Alive: Freud for a New Generation. Review of Lee Jaffe’s How Talking Cures: Revealing Freud’s Contributions to All Psychotherapies, PsychCritiques.
Stile, J.M. (2014), Reflective Eye Movements and Head Movements as Indices of Hemispheric Activation and the Mediating Effects of Anxiety (Doctoral Dissertation), Proquest Dissertations and Theses. UMI 3613725
Gottesman, B., Stile, J.M., Shaw, J., Greene, M. Training Psychology Students on Acute-Care Child / Adolescent Inpatient Units. Poster at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the New England Psychological Association and the Northeast Conference For Teachers of Psychology, Fairfield, CT.
Stile, J.M., Lerner, J.B., Rhatigan, D.L., Plumb, J.C., & Orsillo, S.M. Mindfulness as an Underlying Mechanism of Empathic Concern. Poster at the 37th annual convention of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Boston, MA.
Education and Training
B.A., English, Communication, Tulane University, 1996
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, The New School for Social Research, 2013
M.A., Psychology, The New School for Social Research, 2010
M.A., Mental Health and Behavioral Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, 2004
Postdoctoral Fellowship: Sarah Lawrence College, Counseling and Psychological Services, 2014
Psychology Internship, Fordham University Counseling and Psychological Services, 2013
Psychology Externship: New York Presbyterian Hospital, Payne Whitney, 2011
Psychology Externship, St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center, Center for Intensive Treatment of Personality Disorders, 2010
Psychology Externship: North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, Zucker Hillside Hospital, 2009
Honors
2015 Reviewer of Submissions, the 7th Conference on Emerging Adulthood
2013 Independent Practice Division Scholar, New York State Psychological Association
2012 Fellow, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training & Research
2008 Teaching Fellowship, New School University, Eugene Lang College
2007 Honors Research Master’s Program Admittance, New School for Social Research.
2005 Mind and Life Summer Research Institute Fellowship
2004 Mind and Life Summer Research Institute Fellowship