Esen Karan

Fifth-Year Doctoral Student

Esen is a fifth year clinical psychology doctoral student at The City College of New York. She is also doing her externship at Center for Intensive Treatment of Personality Disorders (CITPD) at Mount Sinai West. After completion of her undergraduate studies in Psychology at Bosphorus (Bogazici) University in Istanbul, Turkey, she pursued her master’s degree in Psychopathology in Maastricht University in the Netherlands. During her internship year of her master’s program, she came to the USA and worked on feelings of shame as well as difficulties in sexual behaviors among patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) under the supervision of Dr. Mary Zanarini at McLean Hospital in Boston. Currently, she is working on difficulties in self other differentiation (SOD), the ability to identify and distinguish one’s self from others, under the supervision of Dr. Eric Fertuck in Social Psychopathology Laboratory. Esen is interested in understanding the impairments in SOD and their relationship with narcissistic and borderline personality disorder. She has several presentations and published articles on shame, identity, and mental pain in personality disorders.