Books
At Columbia, my colleagues and I created clear, operationalized ways of teaching and learning psychodynamic technique and formulation. Our books “Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Clinical Manual,” and “Psychodynamic Formulation: An Expanded Approach,” are used extensively by training programs in all mental health fields. They have been translated into Mandarin, Korean, Farsi, French, and (soon!) Japanese. With Yael Holoshitz, I also wrote a book called “Different Patients, Different Therapies,” about how to think about which type of therapy might work best in different clinical situations.
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Clinical Manual, Second Edition
This expanded and updated edition of our widely-used, practical guide to psychodynamic psychotherapy provides material that readers can apply immediately in their treatment of patients. It is built around a unique approach that clearly teaches psychodynamic psychotherapy using three key steps - listening, reflecting, and intervening. These are applied to all aspects of treatment, and supported by core psychotherapeutic concepts such as evaluation, empathic listening, and setting the frame. The 2nd edition includes an educators' guide.
Psychodynamic Formulation: An Expanded Approach
Psychodynamic Formulation: An Expanded Approach, written by a collective of 11 authors, helps readers develop hypotheses that seek to explain how a person’s conscious and unconscious thoughts and feelings may have developed and may be causing or contributing to the challenges they face.
This latest edition includes a refreshed and reinvigorated emphasis on the impacts of culture and society, as well as the importance of diversity and inclusion, on psychodynamic formulation. It puts new focus on lived experience, including trauma, and on how clinical bias can contribute to the perpetuation of trauma. The 2nd edition offers an educators' guide.
Different Patients, Different Therapies
I wrote Different Patients, Different Therapies with Yael Holoshitz and a host of wonderful psychotherapists as a guide to choosing among the many psychotherapeutic options available to patients and therapists today. Offering a systematic approach, it outlines more than twenty different types of therapy, including psychodynamic psychotherapy, CBT, DBT, MI, and ACT. At the heart of the book are vignettes of typical clinical situations, accompanied by commentary about treatment choice from more than thirty psychotherapy experts.