Adriana Notarfrancesco, MD
Adult and Child
Psychiatrist

Adriana Notarfrancesco, M.D. is board certified in child and adolescent psychiatry and adult psychiatry. She completed her psychoanalytic training in 2007 graduating from the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She was Director of the Children’s Day Unit, an intensive inpatient program at New York State Psychiatric Institute from 1997-1999. She entered private practice in child, adolescent and adult psychiatry in 1997. Dr. Notarfrancesco has served as an Assistant Attending in Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University and as an Instructor in Psychiatry at New York State Psychiatric Institute. She has also been an Associate Instructor at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She completed her fellowship in Child Psychiatry in 1997 at New York Presbyterian Hospital-New York State Psychiatric Institute. During her child psychiatry fellowship, she was awarded the Sachar Award for Clinical Excellence and was Chief Resident of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.

Psychoanalysis is an intensive psychotherapeutic treatment that extends beyond symptom relief, to develop a deep understanding of the patient’s inner life and, through this understanding, to improve the patient’s functioning in the world. During psychoanalysis, the patient and analyst meet four times per week, creating a confidential and safe relationship, in which the patient’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are explored in depth.