César A. Alfonso, M.D.
About César Alfonso MD
César Alfonso, M.D. is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University in New York, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at Universitas Indonesia in Jakarta, Visiting Professor of Psychiatry at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur, Visiting Professor of Psychiatry at the University of the Philippines College of Medicine in Manila, and Visiting Professor of Psychiatry at Prince of Songkla University in Songkhla, Thailand. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, Fellow of the American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis, Fellow of the Academy of Consultation and Liaison Psychiatry, and Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. He served as President of the World Federation for Psychotherapy from 2023-2026.
Clinical Expertise
Dr. Alfonso's areas of clinical interest and expertise include the treatment of anxiety and depressive disorders in persons with concomitant medical illness, complicated bereavement, posttraumatic stress disorder, suicide prevention, helping individuals and couples through relationship crises, coordinating treatment of addiction, helping persons in exogamous relationships navigate cultural differences, working with international college and graduate students with difficulties adjusting to academic and developmental demands, and the treatment of artists and creative individuals with work inhibition. His treatment approach combines medication treatment with psychodynamic, supportive and cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy.
Contact
Hours:
By appointment only
251 Central Park West Suite 1A, New York, NY 10024, USA
Mobile: (917) 496-7614
Email: cesaralfonso@mac.com
