Dr. Andrew Klafter grew up in upstate NY. He attended college at the State University of NY at Binghamton, and received his medical degree from the SUNY Buffalo College of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Dr. Klafter has also spent time overseas studying philosophy, religious law, and medical ethics.  He completed his residency training in adult psychiatry in Philadelphia, PA, where he also served as Chief Resident. In 2000, Dr. Klafter was recruited to the University of Cincinnati to teach psychodynamic psychiatry. During his eight years as a full time faculty member, he served as the Assistant Training Director in the Department of Psychiatry's residency training program. He also served as Medical Director for the department's outpatient, multi-disciplinary practice. Dr. Klafter completed his full training as a psychoanalyst at the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute (CPI) in 2011, and in 2012 joined the CPI faculty. He serves as the Track Leader of the Analytic Training Program's technique curriculum, and Chair the Institute's Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Training Program. He specializes in intensive psychotherapy and psychoanalytic treatments for complex mental disorders, including Narcissistic and Borderline states.  He is a six-time winner of the University of Cincinnati's prestigious Golden Apple Award for his lectures and supervision in psychodynamic psychotherapy.  He has published on a variety of psychoanalytic topics, and also on religious topics. 

In his personal life, Dr. Klafter is an accomplished musician and photographer. He is also a fan of cinema and popular music, and frequently assigns movies, T.V. shows, and songs to his patients as a way of illustrating the universal nature of many of the psychological and interpersonal issues that they are dealing with in their lives and discussing in their therapy.  Dr. Klafter has lectured nationally and internationally on the relevance of the popular media to psychotherapy and mental health, and the impact of music, television, film, video games, and social media on the development of children and teens.