
Robert P. Drozek, LICSW
Behavioral Health Counselor Lead, Borderline Personality Disorder Outpatient Program, Alcohol, Drug, and Addiction Outpatient Program
- Teaching Associate, Department of Psychiatry
Biography
Robert P. Drozek, LICSW, is an individual and group psychotherapist at McLean Hospital, specializing in the treatment of personality disorders, trauma and dissociative disorders, and addiction. Mr. Drozek is clinical director of the Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) Clinic, a therapist in the Borderline Personality Disorder Outpatient Program, and a group therapist in the Division of Alcohol, Drugs, and Addiction. He is a teaching associate in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a supervisor of MBT through the Anna Freud Centre in London.
Mr. Drozek is certified and trained in a range of evidence-based therapies, including MBT, cognitive behavior therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), transference-focused psychotherapy, cognitive processing therapy, prolonged exposure therapy, and DBT for post-traumatic stress disorder. His research focuses on the psychoanalytic treatment of personality disorders, with an emphasis on the utility of MBT in the treatment of borderline and narcissistic personality disorders. Mr. Drozek is the lead developer of MBT for narcissism—the first adaptation of MBT’s principles to help patients with pathological narcissism.
Books

Psychoanalysis as an Ethical Process
by Robert P. Drozek
(Routledge, 2019)

Mentalization-Based Treatment for Pathological Narcissism
by Robert P. Drozek, Brandon Unruh, Anthony Bateman
(Oxford University Press, 2023)
Education & Training
- 2001 BA in Philosophy, Marlboro College
- 2006 Master of Social Work, Clinical Concentration, Boston College Graduate School of Social Work
- 2004-2005 Internship, Boston Vet Center, Veterans Health Administration
- 2005-2006 Internship, Massachusetts Mental Health Center
- 2007-2008 Fellowship in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
- 2010 Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, Board of Registration of Social Workers, Commonwealth of Massachusetts