Psychodynamic Formulation An Expanded Approach

Psychodynamic Formulation

A leading text for psychodynamic clinicians and practitioners

Psychodynamic Formulation: An Expanded Approach delivers an exceptional exploration of psychodynamic explanations and 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 of the leading reference 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.

In addition to newly included activities and exercises, readers will find:

• A practical, step-by-step guide to collaboratively creating psychodynamic formulations
• Comprehensive discussions about how what we’re born with and environmental influences contribute to development
• Suggestions for using psychodynamic formulations in many clinical settings, including acute care and psychopharmacologic treatment
• An educator’s guide to teaching psychodynamic formulation

Perfect for mental health practitioners with a professional or personal interest in psychodynamics/psychoanalysis, Psychodynamic Formulation: An Expanded Approach will earn a place in the libraries of trainees in all mental health fields.

Deborah L. Cabaniss is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Associate Director of the Adult Psychiatry Residency Program in the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry, and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Her teaching and writing focus on psychotherapy education, and she practices psychiatry and psychoanalysis in New York City. 

Sabrina Cherry is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. She is also an Associate Director and Training and SUpervising Analyst at the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research where she teaches candidates and conducts research on psychoanalytic career development. She practices psychotherapy and psychoanlysis in New York City. 

Carolyn J. Douglas, is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Weill-Cornell Medical College. She has been closely involved in psychiatric residency training throughout her career, has published several articles about teaching psychodynamic psychotheraphy, and has won teaching awards from residents in psychiatry both at Columbia and at Weill-Cornell for her didactic courses and supervision in supportive psychodynamic psychotherapy. 

Ruth Graver is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. She teaches and supervises at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Teaching and Research where she is currently the co-chair of the Columbia Academy for Psychoanalytic Educators (CAPE), a new program designed to hone skills relevant to treating and supervising candidates. Her scholarly interests include clinical technique, attachment theory, and psychoanalytic writing. She conducts her clinical practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in New York City. 

Anna Schwartz is Cinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. She is also a faculty member of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, where she has taught and supervised psychotherapy trainees for many years. She is in private practice in New York City. 

Table of Contents 

Preface 
Acknowledgments 

Part One: Introduction to the Psychodynamic Formulation
1. What is Psychodynamic Formulation?
2. How do we use Psychodynamic Formulations?
3. How do we create Psychodynamic Formulations?
4. Psychodynamic Formulations and Bias 
5. Who we are affects our formulations

Part Two: Describe 
6. Self
7. Relationships
8. Adapting
9. Cognition
10. Values 
11.Work/Play

Part Three: Review 
12. What we're born with
13. The Earliest Years 
14. Middle Childhood 
15. Later Childhood
16. Adolescence 
17. Adulthood 

Part Four: Link
18. Trauma
19. Early Cognitive and Emotional Differences
20. The Effects of Culture and Society 
21. Conflict and Defense 
22. Relationships with Others
23. The Development of the Self 
24. Attachment 

Part Five: Psychodynamic Formulations in Clinical Practice 
25. Psychodynamic Formulations in Acute Care Settings
26. Psychodynamic Formulations in Pharmacologic Treatment
27. Psychodynamic Formulations in Long Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy 
28. Sharing Formulations with our Patients 

End Note 
Appendix 1: An Educator's Guide to Psychodynamic Formulation: An Expanded Approach
Appendix 2: DESCRIBE, REVIEW, LINK- An outline 
Recommended Reading
Index