Jeffrey E. Young

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Jeffrey E. Young (born March 9, 1950 ) is an American psychologist and psychotherapist .

Jeffrey E. Young teaches on the Faculty of Psychiatry at Columbia University . He is the founder and director of the Cognitive Therapy Center in New York and Connecticut and the Schema Therapy Institute in New York City. Jeffrey Young is known as the founder of schema therapy , a further development of cognitive behavioral therapy that is used for personality disorders and chronic depression .

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