Faculty
BRANDON T. UNRUH, MD
CO-FOUNDER/DIRECTOR
Brandon T. Unruh, MD, is the medical director of the Gunderson Residence and founding director of the Mentalization-based Treatment (MBT) Clinic at McLean Hospital. He is an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and an MBT trainer and supervisor through the Anna Freud Centre in London. His clinical approach is anchored in the practice of evidence-based treatments for personality disorders, including MBT, dialectical behavior therapy, transference-focused psychotherapy, and good psychiatric management. His core academic publications and interests are in the areas of personality disorders, suicidality, spirituality, and flourishing. He is co-editor of the book Borderline Personality Disorder: A Case-based Approach (2018), and co-author of Mentalization-based Treatment for Pathological Narcissism: A Handbook (2023), forthcoming from Oxford University Press. He has a private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
ROBERT P. DROZEK, LICSW
CO-FOUNDER/DIRECTOR
Robert P. Drozek, LICSW, is a staff psychotherapist in the Personality Disorders Service at McLean Hospital, specializing in the treatment of personality disorders, trauma and dissociative disorders, and addictions. He is a teaching associate in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and a supervisor in the MBT Clinic at McLean Hospital. Originally trained in MBT in 2010, he currently serves as faculty in the basic and practitioner level MBT trainings offered annually through the Anna Freud Centre and McLean’s Gunderson Personality Disorders Institute. His psychoanalytic writings examine the interface between psychotherapy and ethics, with an emphasis on the role of ethics in the patient’s therapeutic change. In MBT, he is co-developer (with Brandon T. Unruh and Anthony W. Bateman) of MBT for Narcissism. He has published on using MBT to address the problem of law enforcement violence, and he has developed the domain-based theory of mentalization, a streamlined heuristic to simplify the teaching and practice of MBT. He is author of Psychoanalysis as an Ethical Process, and co-author of Mentalization-based Treatment for Pathological Narcissism: A Handbook (2023), forthcoming from Oxford University Press. He is in private practice in Belmont, Massachusetts.