Undergraduate: Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
B.A. (psychology)
June 1990
Graduate and Professional: St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY
Ph.D. (clinical psychology)
June 1999
Research Fellowship: Rutgers University, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, New Brunswick, NJ
National Institute of Mental Health Post-Doctoral Fellow in Mental Health Services Research
July 1999 – June 2001
Philip T. Yanos, Ph.D. (he/him) is a professor in the Psychology Department at John Jay College and The Graduate Center. A clinical psychologist, he received his Ph.D. in from St. John's University in 1999 and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in mental health services research at Rutgers University in 2001, and has been faculty at John Jay since 2006. He is an internationally recognized expert in mental health stigma, author of the book "Written-Off: Mental Health Stigma and the Loss of Human Potential" (Cambridge University Press, 2018), associate editor of the journal "Stigma and Health," and the author of over 130 peer-reviewed publications. He has been awarded the John Jay College Scholarly Excellence Award 5 times since 2009.
International Society for Psychological and Psychosocial Approaches to Psychosis.
John Jay College Faculty Scholarly Excellence Award, 2021
Philip Yanos is a clinical psychologist who studies mental health stigma and factors that facilitate and inhibit mental health recovery among people diagnosed with serious mental illnesses. For more information on his work, please visit https://mhrecoverylab.commons.gc.cuny.edu . He is the co-developer of the intervention "Narrative Enhancement and Cognitive Therapy" (NECT) for self-stigma. For more information on NECT, please visit https://www.nectglobal.org/ .