CURRICULUM VITAE
PAUL L. WACHTEL
Current Position:
CUNY Distinguished Professor, City College and Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Education
A.B. cum laude, Columbia University, 1961.
M.S. Yale University, 1963
Ph.D., Yale University, 1965.
Graduate, Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, New York University, 1971.
Honors, Fellowships, Etc.
National Merit Scholar, 1957-1961.
Phi Beta Kappa, elected 1961.
U.S. Public Health Service Traineeship in Clinical Psychology, 1961-1965
Carnegie Foundation Teaching Fellowship, Summer 1963.
N.I.M.H. Postdoctoral Fellow, 1968-69.
N.E.H. Fellow, Institute for Society, Ethics, and the Life Sciences, 1978-1979.
Board of Advisors, New Road Map Foundation
Contributing Editor, Group, 1977-1980.
Editorial Board, Cognitive Therapy and Research, 1980-1983.
Advisory Editor, Contemporary Psychology, 1980-1990.
Editorial Board, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1982-1990.
Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 1983-1989
Editorial Board, Clinician's Research Digest, 1983-1989
Editorial board, Journal of Integrative and Eclectic Psychotherapy, 1985-1990
Consulting Editor, Psychoanalytic Psychology, 1985-1997
Editorial Board, Political Psychology, 1990-2002
Co-editor, Newsletter, Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, 1983Editorial Board, Clinical Psychology Review, 1985-
Advisory Editor, Psychotherapy Research, 1990-1998
Editorial Board, Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness, 1990Consulting Editor, Revista Argentina de Clinica Psicologica, 1992Editorial Board, American Journal of Psychotherapy, 1994Associate Editor, In Session: Psychotherapy in Practice, 1994Editorial Advisory Board, Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 2003Editorial Board, Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane, 2003Editorial Board, Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 2007Executive Council, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, 1993-1995
Steering Committee, Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration
Fellow, American Psychological Association and Divisions 12, 29, and 39
Board of Directors, Glass Institute for Basic Research
Advisory Council, International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
International Academic Committee, Maimonides University, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2010 Hans H. Strupp Award for Psychoanalytic Writing, Teaching, and Research
2012 Distinguished Psychologist award from Division 29 (Psychotherapy) of APA
2013 award for Research and Scholarship from Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of APA
Past President, Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration
Advisory Board, Stockholm Academy of Psychotherapy Training
Occupational History:
Yale Psychiatric Institute and Department of Psychiatry, Yale Medical School, 1963-64,
Psychology Intern.
Yale Psycho-educational Clinic, 1964-65, part-time internship.
State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Instructor, Department of Psychiatry
and Staff Psychologist, State University Hospital, 1965-69 (on leave 1968-69).
New York University, Fellow, Program for Postdoctoral Study and Research, 1968-69; Research
Assistant Professor and Associate Research Scientist, Research Center for Mental
Health,.
1969-72.
City College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York: Associate Professor
1972-1977; Professor 1975-1986, Distinguished Professor 1986-present
Associate Director, Ph.D. Program in Clinical Psychology; 1977-1986,
Acting Director, Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies, 1998-2000.
Publications
BOOKS:
Wachtel, P. L. (1977). Psychoanalysis and behavior therapy: Toward an integration. New
York: Basic Books.
German translation, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1981.
Paperback edition, Basic Books, 1989.
Wachtel, P. L. (Ed.) (1982). Resistance: Psychodynamic and behavioral approaches. New
York: Plenum
Wachtel, P. L. (1983). The poverty of affluence: A psychological portrait of the American way of
life. New York: Free Press.
Japanese translation, Tokyo: Brittania Books, 1985.
Spanish translation, Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Economico, 1989.
Paperback edition, Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1989.
Wachtel, E. F. and Wachtel, P. L. (1986). Family dynamics in individual psychotherapy. New
York: Guilford.
Paperback edition, Guilford, 1991.
Wachtel, P. L. (1987). Action and insight. New York: Guilford.
Freedheim, D., Freudenberger, H., Kessler, J., Messer, S., Peterson, D., Strupp, H., & Wachtel, P.
(Eds.) (1992). History of psychotherapy: A century of change. Washington, DC:
American
Psychological Association.
Wachtel, P. L. (1993). Therapeutic communication: Principles and effective practice. New York:
Guilford.
Spanish translation, Bilbao, Spain: Desclee de Brouwer, 1996.
Paperback edition, New York: Guilford, 1998.
Italian translation, Torino, Italy: Bollati Boringhieri, 2000.
Japanese translation, Tokyo: Kongo-Shuppan, 2004.
Greek translation, Athens: Savalas, 2005.
Farsi translation. Tehran: University of Tehran Press, 2010.
Wachtel, P. L. (1997). Psychoanalysis, behavior therapy, and the relational world. Washington,
DC: American Psychological Association.
Japanese translation, Tokyo: Kongo-Shuppan, 2002.
Farsi translation, Tehran: Arjmand Publications. 2011.
Wachtel, P. L. and Messer, S. M. (Eds.) (1997). Theories of psychotherapy: Issues and prospects.
Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Wachtel, P. L. (1999). Race in the mind of America: Breaking the vicious circle between blacks
and whites. New York: Routledge.
Wachtel, P. L. (2008). Relational theory and the practice of psychotherapy. New York:
Guilford.
Paperback edition, 2010
Turkish translation, 2011. Istanbul: Litera Publishers.
Polish translation, 2014. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Harmonia
Japanese translation in preparation
Wachtel, P. L. (2011). Inside the session: What really happens in psychotherapy? Washington,
DC: American Psychological Association.
Japanese translation in preparation
Wachtel, P. L. (2011). Therapeutic communication: Knowing what to say when, Second
Edition. New York: Guilford.
Polish translation, Krakow: Jagiellonian University Press, 2012
Paperback edition, 2013
Japanese translation, 2014, Tokyo: Kongo Shuppan
Wachtel, P. L. (in press). Cyclical psychodynamics and the contextual self: The inner world, the
intimate world, and the world of culture and society. New York: Routledge.
ARTICLES, REVIEWS, AND BOOK CHAPTERS:
Wachtel, P. L. and Blatt, S. J. (1965). Energy deployment and achievement. Journal of
Consulting
Psychology, 29, 302-308.
Wachtel, P. L. (1967). An approach to the study of body language in psychotherapy.
Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 97-100.
Wachtel, P. L. (1967). Conceptions of broad and narrow attention. Psychological Bulletin, 68,
417-429.
Wachtel, P. L. (1968). Style and capacity in analytic functioning. Journal of Personality, 36,
202-212.
Wachtel, P. L. (1968). Change and resistance: A psychotherapeutic view of race relations.
Columbia Forum, 11, 18-21. Also published in F. Karl and L. Hamalian (Eds.), The
Radical Vision. New York: Crowell, 1970.
Wachtel, P. L. (1968). Anxiety, attention, and coping with threat. Journal of Abnormal
Psychology, 73, 137-143.
Wachtel, P. L. (1969). Wanting nothing and getting nothing: On negative results in hypnosis
research. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 11, 209-220.
Schimek, J. G. and Wachtel, P. L. (1969). An exploration of the effects of distraction, competing
tasks, and cognitive style on attention deployment. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 28,
567-574.
Wachtel, P. L. (1969). Psychology, metapsychology, and psychoanalysis. Journal of Abnormal
Psychology, 74, 651-660.
Wachtel, P. L. (1970). Taking a step: A new kind of radicalization. The New Democrat, Vol. 1,
No. 3 (June), p. 2.
Wachtel, P. L. and Schimek, J. G. (1970). An exploratory study of the effects of emotionally
toned incidental stimuli. Journal of Personality, 38, 467-481.
Wachtel, P. L. (1971). Cognitive style, attention, and learning. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 32,
315-318.
Wachtel, P. L. (1972). Reflections of a gas mask wearer. The Village Voice, Vol. 17, No. 10,
March 9, 33-34.
Wachtel, P. L. (1972). Field dependence and psychological differentiation: A reexamination.
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 35, 179-189.
Wachtel, P. L. (1972). Recent developments in psychoanalysis: Another perspective. The
Clinical
Psychologist, 15 (2), 6-13.
Wachtel, P. L. (1972). Cognitive style and style of adaptation. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 35,
779-785.
Wolitzky, D. L. and Wachtel, P. L. (1973). Perception and personality. In B. Wolman (Ed.),
Handbook of general psychology (pp. 826-857). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall.
Goldberger, N. I. and Wachtel, P. L. (1973). Hypnotizability and cognitive controls.
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 21, 298-304.
Wachtel, P. L. (1973). Discussion of E. Ortof's "Cognitive changes in psychotherapy."
Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 9, 371-373.
Wachtel, P. L. (1973). Psychodynamics, behavior therapy, and the implacable experimenter: An
inquiry into the consistency of personality. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 82,
324-334. Also in N. Endler and D. Magnusson (Eds.), Interactional psychology and
personality (pp. 615-630). New York: Wiley, 1976.
Wachtel, P. L. (1973). On fact, hunch, and stereotype: A reply to Mischel. Journal of Abnormal
Psychology, 82, 537-540.
Wachtel, P. L. (1975). Behavior therapy and the facilitation of psychoanalytic exploration.
Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 12, 68-72.
Wachtel, P. L. (1977). Interaction cycles, unconscious processes, and the person situation issue.
In D. Magnusson and N. Endler (Eds.), Personality at the crossroads: Issues in
interactional psychology (pp. 317-331). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Wachtel, P. L. (1977). Structure or transaction?: A critique of the historical and intrapsychic
emphasis in psychoanalytic thought. In D. Spence and T. Shapiro (Eds.),
Psychoanalysis and contemporary science, Vol. 5. New York: International Universities
Press, 1977, 101-136.
Wachtel, P. L. (1977). (Too) much ado about nothing: A review of Sheehan and Perry's
"Methodologies of Hypnosis." Contemporary Psychology, 20, 377-378.
Wachtel, P. L. (1978). On some complexities in the application of conflict theory to
psychotherapy. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 166, 457-471.
Wachtel, P. L. (1978). Internal and external determinants of behavior in psychodynamic theories.
In L. Pervin and M. Lewis (Eds.), Perspectives in interactional psychology (pp.
263-286). New York: Plenum.
Wachtel, P. L. (1978). Review of Joseph Wolpe's "Theme and Variation: A Behavior Therapy
Casebook." Behavior Therapy, 9, 305-307.
Levy, J. and Wachtel, P. L. (1978). Depersonalization: An effort at clarification. American
Journal
of Psychoanalysis, 38, 291-300.
Wachtel, P. L. (1978). Psychoanalysis: From medicine to psychology. In J. Neale, G. Davison, &
R. Price (Eds.), Readings in psychopathology (pp. 361-368.). New York: Wiley,
Wachtel, P. L. (1979). Karen Horney's ironic vision. The New Republic, Vol. 106, No. 1, 22-25.
Wachtel, P. L. (1979). Contingent and non-contingent therapist response.
Psychotherapy: Theory,
Research and Practice, 16, 30-35.
Sollod, R. and Wachtel, P. L. (1980). A structural and transactional approach to cognition in
clinical problems. In M. Mahoney (Ed.), Psychotherapy process: Current issues and
future directions (pp. 1-27). New York: Plenum,.
Wachtel, P. L. (1980). What should we say to our patients?: On the wording of therapists'
comments to patients. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 17, 183-188.
Wachtel, P. L. and Arkin, A. (1980). Projective test response before and after behavior therapy.
Comprehensive Psychotherapy, 1, 1-12.
Wachtel, P. L. (1980). Investigation and its discontents: On some constraints on progress in
psychological research. American Psychologist, 35, 399-408.
Wachtel, P. L. (1980). On the maintenance and generalization of change in behavior therapy and
behavior modification programs. In P. Karoly and J. Steffens (Eds.), Improving the
long-term effects of psychotherapy (pp. 151-162). New York: Gardner Press.
Wachtel, P. L. (1981). The politics of narcissism. The Nation, Jan. 3/10, 1981, pp. 13-15.
Wachtel, P. L. (1981). Psychotherapy according to the old testament: A review of Chessick's
"Freud Teaches Psychotherapy." Contemporary Psychology, 26, 703-704.
Wachtel, P. L. (1981). Transference, schema, and assimilation: The relevance of Piaget to the
psychoanalytic theory of transference. The annual of psychoanalysis, Vol. 8 (pp. 59-76).
New York: International Universities Press.
Wachtel, P. L. (1981). How do we know psychology's limits? American Psychologist, 36, 988.
Wachtel, P. L. (1981). Review of "The Story of Ruth: One Woman's Psychiatric Odyssey."
Contemporary Psychology, 26, 720.
Wachtel, P. L. (1982). Interpersonal theory and active intervention. In D. Kiesler and J. Anchin
(Eds.), Handbook of Interpersonal Therapy (pp. 46-63). New York: Pergamon.
Wachtel, P. L. (1982). Resistance and the process of therapeutic change. In P. Wachtel (Ed.),
Resistance: Psychodynamic and Behavioral Approaches (pp. 1-20). New York: Plenum.
Wachtel, P. L. (1982). Review of "Lives, Events, and Other Players: Directions in
Psychobiography. Contemporary Psychology, 27, 475.
Wachtel, P. L. (1982). Vicious circles: The self and the rhetoric of emerging and unfolding.
Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 18, 273-295.
Also reprinted in M. Merrens & G. Brannigan (Eds.), Experiences in personality:
Research, assessment and change. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997.
Wachtel, P. L. (1982). Reply to Dr. Chrzanowski. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 18, 280-282.
Wachtel, P. L. (1982). Review of International Journal of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
Contemporary Psychology, 27, 476.
Wachtel, P. L. (1982). What can dynamic therapies contribute to behavior therapy? Behavior
Therapy, 13, 594-609.
Wachtel, P. L. (1982). Phenomenological virtuoso: A review of David Shapiro's "Autonomy and
Rigid Character." Contemporary Psychology, 27, 681-682.
Wachtel, P. L. (1982). Review of R.C.W. Hall (Ed.), "Psychiatry in Crisis." Contemporary
Psychology, 27, 738.
Wachtel, P. L. (1982). Salvation or mental health? A review of J. C. Hoffman's "Ethical
Confrontation in Counseling." Hastings Center Reports, August 1982, pp. 40-41.
Wachtel, P. L. (1983). Misunderstanding integration. British Journal of Social and Clinical
Psychology, 22, 129-130.
Wachtel, P. L. (1983). Review of R. Bulka & M. Spero (Eds.), A Psychology Judaism Reader.
Contemporary Psychology, 28, 320.
Wachtel, P. L. (1983). A treatment Freud deserves: A review of "Freud's Unfinished Journey" by
Louis Breger, Contemporary Psychology, 28, 523-524.
Wachtel, P. L. (1983). El significado social de las psicoterapias. In A. Perez and F. Barrera
(Eds.), Psicoterapias 1983: Perspectivas de integration (pp. 138-145). Bogota,
Colombia: Universidad de los Andes.
Wachtel, P. L. (1983). Review of S. Gilman (Ed.), "Introducing Psychoanalytic Theory."
Contemporary Psychology, 28, 642.
Wachtel, P. L. (1983). Review of H. Strean (Ed.), "Controversy in Psychotherapy."
Contemporary
Psychology, 28, 969.
Wachtel, P. L. (1984). Foreword to K. Bowers and D. Meichenbaum (Eds.), The unconscious
reconsidered. New York: Wiley.
Wachtel, P. L. (1984). Review of M. Shepherd & O. L. Zangwill (Eds.), Handbook of Psychiatry,
Vol. 1. Contemporary Psychology, 29, 78.
Wachtel, P. L. (1984). On theory, practice, and the nature of integration. In H. Arkowitz and
S. Messer (Eds.), Psychodynamic and behavior therapies: Can they be integrated? (Pp.
31-52). New York: Plenum.
Also in R. Miller (Ed.), The restoration of dialogue: Readings in the philosophy
of clinical psychology (pp. 403-425). Washington, DC: American Psychological
Association (1992).
Wachtel, P. L. (1984). Rejoinder to Messer and Winokur. In H. Arkowitz and S. Messer (Eds.),
Psychodynamic and behavior therapies: Can they be integrated? (pp. 59-62). New
York: Plenum.
Wachtel, P. L. (1984). Tragedy, irony, and human assistance. In H. Arkowitz and S. Messer
(Eds.), Psychodynamic and behavior therapies: Can they be integrated? (Pp. 101-106).
New York: Plenum.
Wachtel, P. L. (1984). Review of Elizabeth R. Moberly, The Early Development of Gender
Identity. Contemporary Psychology, 29, 355.
Wachtel, P. L. (1985). Integrative psychodynamic therapy. In S. Lynn and J. Garske (Eds.),
Contemporary psychotherapies (pp. 287-329). Columbus, Ohio: Chas. E. Merrill.
Wachtel, P. L. (1985). Review of M. Jacoby, The Analytic Encounter, Contemporary
Psychology, 30, 338.
Wachtel, P. L. (1985). Review of E. G. Beier & D. M. Young, The Silent Language of
Psychotherapy, Contemporary Psychology, 30, 415.
Wachtel, P. L. (1985). The need for theory. International Newsletter of Paradigmatic
Psychology, 1, 15-17.
Wachtel, P. L. (1985). Review of L. Wallace, Pleasure and Frustration: A Resynthesis of Clinical
and Theoretical Psychoanalysis, Contemporary Psychology, 30, 583-584.
Wachtel, P. L. (1985). Review of Y. F. Tuan, Dominance and Affection. Contemporary
Psychology, 39, 666.
Wachtel, P. L. (1985). Brief review of M. Eagle, Recent Developments in Psychoanalysis: A
Critical Evaluation. Behavior Modification, 9, 399.
Wachtel, P. L. (1985). The non-improving patient. In W. Dryden (Ed.), Therapist Dilemmas (pp.
139-151).. London: Harper & Row.
Wachtel, P. L. (1986). Early Freud, late Freud, conflict, and intentionality. Behavioral and Brain
Sciences, 9, 263-264.
Wachtel, P. L. (1986). Review-Essay: Recent Developments in Psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic
Psychology, 3, 93-100.
Wachtel, P. L. (1986). Review of F. Alexander, The Medical Value of Psychoanalysis,
Contemporary Psychology, 31, 230.
Wachtel, P. L. (1986). On the limits of therapeutic neutrality. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 22,
60-70.
Wachtel, P. L. (1986). Review of G. Pollock and J. Gedo, Psychoanalysis: The Vital Issues,
Contemporary Psychology, 31, 229.
Wachtel, P. L. (1986). From narcissism to minimalism. Political Psychology, 7, 609-611.
Wachtel, P. L. (1986). Review of J. Masson (Ed.), The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to
Wilhelm Fliess: 1887-1904. Contemporary Psychology, 31, 1007.
Wachtel, P. L. (1986). Review of P. McDonald, Dreams: Night Language of the Soul.
Contemporary Psychology, 31, 1007
Wachtel, P. L. (1987). Case commentary: Treatment of an adolescent foster child. Journal of
Integrative and Eclectic Psychotherapy, 6, 70-75.
Wachtel, P. L. (1987). "The unconscious" and unconscious processes. Canadian Psychology, 28,
107-108.
Goldfried, M. R. & Wachtel, P. L. (1987). Clinical and conceptual issues in psychotherapy
integration. Journal of Integrative and Eclectic Psychotherapy, 6, 131-144.
Wachtel, P. L. (1987). Review of L. Weiss, Dream analysis in psychotherapy. Contemporary
Psychology, 32, 383.
Wachtel, P. L. (1987). Review of P. Buckley, Essential papers on object relations. Contemporary
Psychology, 32, 385.
Wachtel, P. L. (1987). Toward the integration of individual psychodynamic theories and family
systems theories. In A.W. Staats & L. P. Mos (Eds.), Annals of Theoretical Psychology,
Vol. 5 (pp. 117-140). New York: Plenum.
Wachtel, P. L. (1987). Review of Rat Man by Stuart Schneiderman. Contemporary Psychology,
32, 1041-1042.
Wachtel, P. L. (1987). Clinical exchange: The old maid. Journal of Integrative and Eclectic
Psychotherapy, 6, 229-232.
Wachtel, P. L. (1987). Are we prisoners of the past?: Rethinking Freud. Tikkun, 2, (3) JulyAugust, 24-27; 90- 92.
Wachtel, P. L. (1987). Current debates: Psychoanalysis. Tikkun, 2, (4) September-October,
87-88.
Wachtel, P. L. (1987). Economic growth -- or human growth? New Options, Nov. 30, 1987,
No. 44, 1-2.
Wachtel, P. L. (1988). Foreword to S. Budman & A. Gurman, Principles of brief psychotherapy.
New York: Guilford.
Wachtel, P. L. (1988). Review of G. Cocks & T. L. Crosby (Eds.) Psychohistory: Readings in
the Method of Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and History. Contemporary Psychology, 33,
271.
Wachtel, P. L. (1988). Review of M. M. Gedo (Ed.), Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Art.
Contemporary Psychology, 33, 272-273.
Wachtel, P. L. (1988). Comments on psychotherapy integration. Integrated Psychiatry, 6, 34-36.
Wachtel, P. L. (1988). Better than growth. The Progressive, 52, 5, 12-14.
Wachtel, P. L. (1988). Are you better off now than you were in 1957? The Utne Reader, July/
August 1988, 58-59.
Wachtel, P. L. (1988). Toward a quality of life society. In M. Raskin and C. Hartman (Eds.).
Winning America: Ideas and leadership for the 90s (pp. 405-412). Boston: South End
Press.
Wachtel, P. L. (1988). Review of R. C. Robertiello & G. Schoenewolf, 101 Common Therapeutic
Blunders. Contemporary Psychology, 33, 460.
Wachtel, P. L. (1988). Around the world on a couch. A review of A. Kleinman's "Rethinking
Psychiatry." The New York Times Book Review, September 4, 1988.
Wachtel, P. L. (1988). The psychological frustrations of economic growth. Whole Earth
Review, Winter 128-129.
Wachtel, P. L. (1988). The case against growth. New Age Journal, November/December 1988,
23-24, 78-79.
Wachtel, P. L. (1988). Review of P. L. Rudnytsky, Freud and Oedipus. Contemporary
Psychology, 33, 545-546.
Wachtel, P. L. (1988). Review of Peter Gay, A Godless Jew: Freud, Atheism, and the Making of
Psychoanalysis. Contemporary Psychology, 33, 831-832.
Wachtel, P. L. (1988). Terapia psicodinamica integradora. In S. J. Lynn & J. P. Garske (Eds.),
Psicoterapias contemporaneas. Madrid: Desclee de Brouwer.
Wachtel, P. L. (1988). Review of R. Sterba, The Collected Papers. Contemporary Psychology,
33, 832.
Wachtel, P. L. (1989). Cyclical psychodynamics: An amplification. Journal of Integrative and
Eclectic Psychotherapy, 8, 118-120.
Wachtel, P. L. (1989). Review of E. Timms and N. Segal (Eds.), Freud in Exile: Psychoanalysis
and its vicissitudes. Contemporary Psychology, 34, 874.
Wachtel, P. L. (1989). The social significance of psychotherapy. In L. Simek-Downing (Ed.),
International psychotherapy: Theories, research and cross-cultural implications (pp.
45-56). New York: Praeger.
Wachtel, P. L. (1989). Insight isn't everything. A review of A. Rothstein (Ed.), How does
treatment help: On the modes of therapeutic action of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
The New York Times Book Review, August 6, 1989, p. 14.
Wachtel, P. L. (1989). The ambiguities of insight. Journal of Integrative and Eclectic
Psychotherapy, 8, 240-245.
Wachtel, P. L. (1989). Review of The Annual of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 16. Contemporary
Psychology, 34, 1147.
Wachtel, P. L. (1989). Integrative psychotherapy, Part 4. Corona del Mar, CA: Psychological
and Educational Films.
Wachtel, P. L. (1990). Review of S. R. Lankton and J. K. Zeig (Eds.), Research, Comparisons
and Medical Applications of Ericksonian Techniques. Contemporary Psychology, 35,
185.
Wachtel, P. L. (1990). Should psychoanalytic training be training to be a psychoanalyst? In M.
Meisels & E. Shapiro (Eds.), Tradition and innovation in psychoanalytic education (pp.
173-180). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Wachtel, P. L. (1990). No one goes crazy alone. A review of Elizur and S. Minuchin,
Institutionalizing madness. The New York Times Book Review, February 25, 1990, p.
26.
Wachtel, P. L. (1990). Drowning in the rising tide. Thesis, Spring 1990, Vol. 4, No. 1. Pp.
32-33.
Wachtel, P. L. (1990). Psychotherapy from an integrative psychodynamic perspective. In J. K.
Zeig & W. M. Munion (Eds.), What is psychotherapy: Contemporary perspectives (pp.
234-238). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Wachtel, P. L. (1990). Formulation and treatment: The wallflower. In J. Norcross (Ed.),
Therapist Wars (pp. 81-85). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Wachtel, P. L. & Blatt, S. J. (1990). Perceptions of economic needs and of anticipated future
income. Journal of Economic Psychology, 11, 403-415
Wachtel, P. L. (1991). The role of accomplices in preventing and facilitating change. In R. Curtis
& G. Stricker (Eds.), How people change: Inside and outside therapy (pp. 21-28). New
York: Plenum.
Wachtel, P. L. (1991). From eclecticism to synthesis: Toward a more seamless psychotherapeutic
integration. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 1, 43-54.
Wachtel, P. L. (1991). Political psychology and economic psychology. Political Psychology,
12, 747-757.
Wachtel, P. L. (1991). Review of The Annual of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 17. Contemporary
Psychology, 36, 345.
Wachtel, P. L. (1991). The preoccupation with economic growth: An analysis informed by
Horneyan theory. American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 51, 89-104.
Wachtel, P. L. (1991). Healing our social neurosis. In M. Macy (Ed.), Healing the world (pp.
95-112). Indianapolis: Knowledge Systems, Inc.
Wachtel, P. L. (1991). Review of B. Wolstein (Ed.), Essential Papers on Countertransference.
Contemporary Psychology, 36, 809-810.
Wachtel, P. L. (1991). Misunderstanding our affluence, misunderstanding our poverty. Why, 8,
321-324.
Wachtel, P. L. & Peyru, G. (1991). Integracion en la psicoterapia. Psicologias, 1 (2), 25-27.
Wachtel, P. L. (1991). Review of A. Esman (Ed.), Essential Papers on Transference.
Contemporary
Psychology, 36, 1110.
Wachtel, P. L. & McKinney, M. (1992). Cyclical psychodynamics and integrative
psychodynamic therapy. In J. Norcross & M. Goldfried (Eds.), Handbook of
psychotherapy integration (pp. 335-370). New York: Basic Books.
Messer, S. B. & Wachtel, P. L. (1992). Theoretical perspectives in psychotherapy. In Freedheim,
D., Freudenberger, H., Kessler, J., Messer, S., Peterson, D., Strupp, H., & Wachtel, P.
(Eds.) History of psychotherapy: A century of change (pp. 105-109). Washington, DC:
American Psychological Association, Pp. 105-109.
Wachtel, P. L. (1992). El lugar central del la superacion de la ansiedad en el proceso terapeutico.
Revista Argentina de Clinica Psicologia, 1, 39-46.
Wachtel, P. L. (1992). Material development and life satisfaction. Peace Review, 4 (1), 42-46.
Wachtel, P. L. (1992). On theory, practice, and the nature of integration. In R. B. Miller (Ed.),
The restoration of dialogue: Readings in the philosophy of clinical psychology (pp.
418-432). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Wachtel, P. L. & Peyru, G. (1992). Dialogos, II. Psicologias, 1 (3), 34.
Gold, J. R. & Wachtel, P. L. (1993). Cyclical psychodynamics. In J. Gold & G. Stricker (Eds.),
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Wachtel, P. L. (1993). Health, care, jobs, and the environment: Unrecognized connections. The
Human Economy, 14, (2), 1-11.
Wachtel, P. L. (1993). Active intervention, psychic structure, and the analysis of transference.
Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 3, 589-603.
Wachtel, P. L. (1993). Los terapeutas hablan. Psicologias, 2 (14), 18-23.
Wachtel, P. L. (1994). Cyclical processes in psychopathology. Journal of Abnormal
Psychology, 103, 51-54.
Also reprinted in M. Merrens & G. Brannigan (Eds.), Experiences in personality:
Research, assessment and change. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997.
Wachtel, P. L. (1994). Patterns of influence in the analytic relationship. In G. P. Bauer (Ed.),
Essential papers on transference analysis (pp. 67-80). Northvale, N. J.: Jason Aronson.
Wachtel, P. L. (1994). Interventi sul caso disturbo ossessivo-compulsivo. Psicoterapia e
Scienze Umane, 28, 117-119.
Wachtel, P. L. (1994). Behavior and experience: Allies, not adversaries. Journal of
Psychotherapy Integration, 4, 121-131.
Wachtel, P. L. (1994). Foreword to Goldfried and Davison's Clinical behavior therapy, Revised
edition. New York: Wiley.
Wachtel, P. L. (1995). Del eclecticismo a la sintesis: Hacia una integracion psicoterapeutica con
menos consturas. Revista de Psicoterapia, 5, 45-56.
Wachtel, P. L. (1995). Simplifying voluntary simplicity. In R. W. Belk, N. Dholakia & A.
Benkatesh (Eds.), Consumption and marketing (pp. 225-231). Cincinnatti: SouthWestern Publishers.
Wachtel, P. L. (1995). From rage to racism. Washington Post Book World, July 30, 1995 (Vol.
XXV, Number 31), p. 9.
Wachtel, P. L. (1995). Melting into air. Philosophy and Public Policy, 15 (4), 20.
Wachtel, P. L. (1995). The contextual self. In C. Strozier & M. Flynn (Eds.), Trauma and self
(pp. 45-56). London: Rowman & Littlefield.
Wachtel, P. L. (1996). Warning: Markets may be harmful to your health. A review of Barry
Schwartz's, "The Costs of Living: How Market Freedom Erodes the Best Things in Life."
Contemporary Psychology, 41, 361-362.
Wachtel, P. L. (1996). The many faces of intolerance. Washington Post Book World, April 14,
1996. P. 4.
Wachtel, P. L. (1996). Hatred in all its diversity. Washington Post National Weekly Edition,
April 29/May 5, 1996, p.35.
Wachtel, P. L. (1996). The inner city and the inner life. Tikkun, May/June, 1996, pp. 59-61.
DeMichele, A. & Wachtel, P. L. (1997). Persuasion and healing revisited. Contemporary
Psychology, 42, 389-391.
Messer, S. B. & Wachtel, P. L. (1997). The contemporary psychotherapeutic landscape: Issues
and prospects. In Wachtel, P. L. and Messer, S. M. (Eds.), Theories of psychotherapy:
Evolution and current status (pp. 1-38). Washington, DC: American Psychological
Association.
Wachtel, P. L. (1997). From rhetoric to data: Strengthening the foundations of psychoanalytic
discourse. Contemporary Pychology, 42, 547-548.
Wachtel, P. L. & DeMichele, A. (1998). Unconscious plans, or unconscious conflicts?
Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 8, 429-442.
Wachtel, P. L. (1998). Overconsumption. In R. Keil, D.V. J. Bell, P. Penz, & L. Fawcett (Eds.),
Political Ecology (pp. 259-271). New York: Routledge.
Wachtel, P. L. (1998). Alternatives to the consumer society. In D. A. Crocker & T. Linden (Eds.),
Ethics of consumption: The good, justice, and global stewardship (pp. 198-217).
Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Wachtel, P. L. (1999). Front lines and deadlines. Washington Post Book World, July 11, 1999,
p.3.
Wachtel, P. L. (1999). Resistance as a problem for practice and theory. Journal of
Psychotherapy
Integration, 103-117.
Wachtel, P. L. (1999). Dark night of the soul: A review of Night Falls Fast: Understanding
Suicide by Kay Redfield Jamison. Washington Post, October 11, 1999, p. C2.
Wachtel, P. L. (2000). Integrative Psychotherapy. In A. Kazdin (Ed.), Encyclopedia of
psychology (Vol. 4, pp. 315-318). New York: Oxford University Press.
Wachtel, P. L. (2000). Racial integration: Do we still have a dream? Poverty and Race, 9 (1),
1415.
Wachtel, P. L. (2000). Mind the gap: A review of William Julius Wilson’s “The Bridge over the
Racial Divide.” Tikkun, 15 (4), 77-79.
Wachtel, P. L. (2000). Reclaiming the disavowed: The evolution of an integrative point of view.
In J. Shay & J. Wheelis (Eds.), Odysseys in psychotherapy (pp. 359-392). New York:
Irvington.
Wachtel, P. L. (2000). Psychoanalytic insights into race relations. Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, 3, (Summer 2000),
pp. 32-33.
Wachtel, P. L. (2000). The strength that is psychotherapy integration. New Therapist, 9 (Sept/Oct), 10-15.
Wachtel, P. L. (2000). Psychotherapy in the twenty-first century. American Journal of
Psychotherapy, 54, 441-450.
Wachtel, P. L. (2001). An (inevitably) self-deceiving reflection on self-deception. In M. Goldfried (Ed.), How
therapists change (pp. 83-101). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Wachtel, P. L. (2001). Integration: The long hard road to the right destination. In C. Hartman (Ed.), Challenges to
equality: Poverty and race in America (pp. 79-81). Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe.
Wachtel, P. L. (2001). Racism, Vicious Circles, and the Psychoanalytic Vision. Psychoanalytic
Review, 88, 653-672.
Wachtel, P. L. (2001). La resistencia como problema teorico y practico. Revista de Psicoterapia, 12
(46/47), 119-132.
Wachtel, P. L. (2002). Probing the boundaries of the relational paradigm. Psychoanalytic
Dialogues, 12, 197-215.
Wachtel, P. L. & Seckinger, R. A. (2002). Cyclical psychodynamics. In E. Collumbien, S. Colijn, G. Litaer & R.
Trijsburg (Eds.), Handbook of integrative psychotherapy (VII-6, 1-24). Leusden (the Netherlands): De
Tijdstroom.
Wachtel, P. L. (2002). Psychoanalysis and the disenfranchised: From therapy to justice.
Psychoanalytic Psychology, 19, 199-215.
Wachtel, P. L. (2002). Preface to Japanese edition. In P. L. Wachtel, Psychoanalysis, behavior therapy, and the
relational world. Tokyo: Kongo-Shuppan.
Wachtel, P. L. (2002). Intersubjectivity, vicious circles, and developmental arrests. PsychologistPsychoanalyst, 22, 1, 47-49.
Wachtel, P. L. (2002). EMDR and psychoanalysis. In F. Shapiro (Ed.), EMDR as an integrative
psychotherapy approach: Experts of diverse orientations explore the paradigm prism (pp. 123-150)..
Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Wachtel, P. L. (2002). The danger of a vicious circle. GP Psychotherapist, 10 (2), 2-3.
Wachtel, P. L. (2002). Termination of therapy: An effort at integration. Journal of
Psychotherapy Integration, 12, 373-383.
Wachtel, P. L. (2002). The lives of cities and people. Tikkun, 17 (6), 71-72.
Wachtel, P. L. (2003). The surface and the depths: The metaphor of depth in psychoanalysis and
the ways in which it can mislead. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 39, 5-26.
Wachtel, P. L. (2003). Full pockets, empty lives: A psychoanalytic exploration of the
contemporary culture of greed. American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 63, 101-120.
Wachtel, P. L. (2003). The Roots of Racism: A Psychoanalytic Perspective. Black Renaissance,
5,45-51.
Wachtel, P. L. (2004). Preface to Japanese translation. In Wachtel, P. L. Therapeutic
communication, Japanese translation, Tokyo: Kongo-Shuppan.
Wachtel, P. L. (2004). Teoria dello schema e psicoanalisi: Un aggiornamento. Psicoterapia e
Scienze Umane, 38, 293-296.
Wachtel, P. L. (2004). Transfert, schema e assimililazione: La rilevanza di Piaget per la teoria
psicoanalitica del transfer. Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane, 38, 296-314.
Altman, N., Benjamin, J., Jacobs, T., & Wachtel, P. L. (2004). Is politics the last taboo in
psychoanalysis? Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 2, 5-39.
Wachtel, P. L. (2004). Psychotherapy integration comes of age. In Fernández-Alvarez,
H., &
Opazo R. (Eds) La Integración en Psicoterapia (pp. 9-12). Buenos Aires: Editorial
Paidós.
Wachtel, P. L. (2005). The conflict behind our racial conflict. Poverty and Race, 14 (1), 3.
Wachtel, P. L. (2005). Anxiety, consciousness, and self-acceptance: Placing the idea of making
the unconscious conscious in an integrative framework. Journal of Psychotherapy
Integration, 14, 243-253.
Wachtel, P. L., Kruk, J. & McKinney, M. (2005). Cyclical psychodynamics and integrative
relational psychotherapy. In J. Norcross & M. Goldfried (Eds.), Handbook of
psychotherapy integration (Second Edition) (pp. 172-195). New York: Oxford University
Press.
Wachtel, P. L. & Goldfried, M. R. (2005). A critical dialogue on psychotherapy integration. In
J. Norcross & M. Goldfried (Eds.), Handbook of psychotherapy integration (Second
Edition) (pp. 494-502). New York: Oxford University Press.
Wachtel, P. L. (2005). Greed as an individual and social phenomenon: An application of the
twoconfigurations model. In J. Auerbach, K. Levy, & C. Schaffer (Eds.), Relatedness,
self-definition and mental representation: Essays in honor of Sidney J. Blatt. (pp.
241-254). London: Brunner-Routledge.
Wachtel, P. L. (2005). The future of psychotherapy integration: I: Practice. Journal of
Psychotherapy Integration, 15, 408-409.
Wachtel, P. L. (2005). The future of psychotherapy integration: II: Research. Journal of
Psychotherapy Integration, 15, 424-425.
Wachtel, P. L. (2005). The future of psychotherapy integration: III: Theory. Journal of
Psychotherapy Integration, 15, 439-440.
Wachtel, P. L. (2005). The future of psychotherapy integration: IV: Training. Journal of
Psychotherapy Integration, 15, 453-454.
Wachtel, P. L. (2005). What will psychotherapy look like 25 years from now? Journal of
Psychotherapy Integration, 15, 467-468.
Wachtel, P. L. (2006). Psychoanalysis, science, and hermeneutics: The vicious circles of
adversarial discourse. Journal of European Psychoanalysis, 22, 25-46.
Wachtel, P. L. (2006). Foreword to D. L. Bluestein, The Psychology of Working. Mahwah,
NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Altman, N., Benjamin, J., Jacobs, T., & Wachtel, P. L. (2006). Politics and psychoanalysis. In L.
Layton, N. C. Hollander, & S. Gutwill (Eds.), Psychoanalysis, class and politics:
Encounters in the clinical setting, pp. 166-194. New York: Routledge.
Wachtel, P. L. (2006). The ambiguities of the “real” in psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic
Perspectives, 3, 17-26.
Wachtel, P. L. (2006) Integrative relational psychotherapy. Washington, DC: American
Psychological Association (DVD).
Wachtel, P. L. (2006). Gautreaux and the vicious circle of racial injustice. In C. Hartman (Ed.),
Poverty & race in America: The emerging agendas, pp. 150-152.. Lanham, MD:
Lexington
Books
Gold, J. & Wachtel, P. L. (2006). Cyclical psychodynamics. In J. Gold & G. Stricker (Eds.),
Case Studies in Psychotherapy Integration (pp. 79-87). Washington, DC: APA Books.
Wachtel, P. L. (2007). Talking about racism: How our dialogue gets short-circuited. In G.
Colombo, R. Cullen, & B. Lisle (Eds.), Rereading America: Cultural contexts for critical
thinking and writing (pp. 541-556). New York: Bedford/St. Martins.
Wachtel, P. L. (2007). Making invisibility visible: Further reflections on race and gender. In C.
Muran (Ed.), Dialogues on Difference. Washington, DC: APA Books.
Gillman, D. A. & Wachtel, P. L. (2007). A Q-sort model for the empirical investigation of
psychotherapy integration. Psychotherapy Bulletin, 42 (3), 4-11.
Wachtel, P. L. (2007). Investigation and its discontents: Some constraints on progress in
psychological research. Applied and Preventive Psychology, 12, 3-10. (Reprinted from
American Psychologist, 1980, with commentary by 13 leading psychological researchers
in a special “classic revisited” issue)
Wachtel, P. L. (2007). Consonances and controversies: Investigation and Its discontents
revisited. Applied and Preventive Psychology, 12, 47-57.
Wachtel, P. L. (2007). Carl Rogers and the larger context of therapeutic thought.
Psychotherapy:
Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 44, 279-284.
Wachtel, P. L. (2007). Prefazione. In T.Carere-Comes, P. Adami Rook, & L. Panseri (Eds.),
Che
cosa unisce gli psicoterapeuti (e che cosa li separa) (pp. 5-6). Florence, Italy: Vertici.
Wachtel, P. L. (2007). Psicoanalisi, scienza ed ermeneutica: i circoli viziosi del discorso
oppositivo
In T.Carere-Comes, P. Adami Rook, & L. Panseri (Eds.), Che cosa unisce gli
psicoterapeuti (e che cosa li separa) (pp. 91-106). Florence, Italy: Vertici.
Wachtel, P. L. (2007). A renaissance in psychotherapy integration. Simposio, 3, 14-15.
Wachtel, P. L. (2008). Mahoney’s constructivism, psychoanalytic constructivism, and the
creation of isolated discourse worlds. Constuctivism in the Human Sciences, 12, 34-37.
Wachtel, P. L. (2008). Psychotherapy and psychotherapy integration: An international
perspective. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 18, 66-69.
Wachtel, P. L. (2008). Talking about race: Community dialogues and the politics of
difference. Political Psychology, 29, 466-469.
Samstag, L. W., Muran, J. C. Wachtel, P. L., Slade, A. Safran, J. D. & Winston, A. (2008),
Evaluating negative process: a comparison of working alliance, interpersonal behavior,
and narrative coherency among three psychotherapy outcome conditions. American
Journal of Psychotherapy, 62, 165-194.
Wachtel, P. L. (2008). Repensando la interpretación: Narrativas explicativas, narrativas de
posibilidad y la necesidad de promover nuevas acciones en el mundo Revista de la
Asociación de Psicoterapia de la República Argentina (inaugural issue, May 2008)
(online journal: http://www.revistadeapra.org.ar/pdf/Wachtel_1.pdf
Wachtel, P. L. (2008). Interpretacion, aceptation de si mismo y nueva experiencia relational.
Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Psicoanálisis, 11/12, 91-131.
Wachtel, P. L. (2008). Disociación, múltiples estados del self e intersubjetividad:
Psicodinámicas cíclicas y las implicaciones para la teoría relacional. Clinica e
Investigacion Relacional, 2, 317-342.
Wachtel, P. L. & Naranjo, R. (2008). Una Entrevista. Clinica e Investigacion Relacional, 2, 433441.
Wachtel, P. L. (2009). When Antipathy Distorts Perception. PsycCritiques: Contemporary
Psychology: APA Review of Books, 54 (2), Article 9, 1-3.
Wachtel, P. L. (2009). Knowing oneself from the inside out, knowing oneself from the outside
in:
The “inner” and “outer” worlds and their link through action. Psychoanalytic
Psychology, 26, 158-170.
Reprinted in L. Aron & A. Harris (Eds.), Relational psychoanalysis: Evolution of
Process, Vol. 5. New York: Routledge, 2012/
Reprinted in Bulletin of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Council, 2012, Vol. 8, 170190.
Wachtel, P. L. (2009). Research on psychotherapy integration: Throw away the manual.
Psychotherapy Bulletin, 44 (4), 35-45.
Wachtel, P. L. (2009). The evolving investigation of therapeutic change principles. Applied and
Preventive Psychology, 13, 30-31.
Wachtel, P. L. (2010). The Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration. In
I.Weiner and E. Craighead (eds.) Encyclopedia of Psychology, 4 th Edition (p. 160).
New York: Wiley.
Wachtel, P. L. (2010). One-person and two-person conceptions of attachment and their
implications for psychoanalytic thought. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 91,
561581.
Wachtel, P. L. (2010). Beyond “ESTs”: Problematic assumptions in the pursuit of evidencebased practice. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 27.251-272.
Wachtel, P. L. (2010). Neal Miller and the integration of psychoanalysis and behavior therapy.
Biofeedback, 38 (3), 98-100.
Wachtel, P. L. (2010). Psychotherapy integration and integrative psychotherapy: Process or
product? Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 20 (4), 406-416.
Wachtel, P. L. (2011). Personality in context: Reflections on the contributions of David Shapiro.
In C. Piers (Ed.), Personality and psychopathology (pp. 23-39). New York: Springer.
Wachtel, P. L. (2011). Convergences: Response to David Shapiro’s reply. In C. Piers (Ed.),
Personality and psychopathology (pp. 43-45). New York: Springer.
Wachtel, P. L. (2011). Response to Dr Szajnberg. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 92,
472-473.
Wachtel, P. L. (2011). Al di là degli “est”: Problemi di una pratica psicoterapeutica Basata sulle
evidenze. Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane , 2011, XLV, 2: 153-180.
Wallerstein, H. & Wachtel, P. L. (2011). Social and cultural dimensions of psychotherapy
integration. Psychotherapy Bulletin, 46 (3), 6-13.
Wachtel, P. L. (2011). Essay-review: Healing Psychiatry: Bridging the Science/Humanism
Divide. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 28 (3), 457-464.
Wachtel, P. L. (2011). Introduction to Farsi edition of Psychoanalysis, Behavior Therapy, and
the Relational World. Tehran: Arjmand Publications.
Wachtel, P. L. (2012). Reflections on the therapeutic process. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 9,
88-117.
Cherkassaya, E. & Wachtel, P. L. (2013): Integrativ psykoterapi: historie og nåværende status. In
Benum, K., Axelsen, D. & Hartmann, E. (Eds.). God Psykoterapi: Et integrativt
perspektiv (pp. 50-810. Oslo: Pax.
Wachtel, P. L. (2014). Psychoanalysis and its social context. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 11,
5868.
Wachtel, P. L. (2014). Introduction to Japanese translation, Therapeutic communication:
Knowing what to say when, Second Edition. Tokyo: Kongo Shuppan.
Wachtel, P. L. (2014). Review of “Obama’s Race’ by M. Tesler & D. O. Sears. Political
Psychology, 35, 1, 125-127.
Wachtel, P. L. (in press). Depth, perception, and action: Past, present, and future.
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Wachtel, P. L. (in press). An integrative relational point of view. Psychotherapy.
Wachtel, P. L. (in press). Reflections on relational psychoanalysis and psychotherapy
integration.
In J. Bresler & K. Starr (Eds.), Psychotherapy integration and relational psychoanalysis.
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Wachtel, P. L. (in press). Cyclical psychodynamics. In E. S. Neukrug (Ed.), encyclopedia of
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in counseling and psychotherapy. Thousand Oaks, CAL Sage Publications.
Wachtel, P. L. (in press). Symptoms, character, and context. Journal of Psychotherapy
Integration.
Wachtel, P. L. (in press). On the limits of theoretical fundamentalism. Journal of Psychotherapy
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Wachtel, P. L. (in press). When the context is in the room: Extending the relational paradigm.
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Cognitive style and adaptive style: Toward a more dynamic conceptualization. Paper presented to
the Faculty of the Psychology Department,Yeshiva University, March 23rd, 1970.
Discussant, symposium on Recent Trends in Psychoanalysis. New York State Psychological
Association, May 8th, 1971.
Toward the integration of dynamic and behavioral approaches to therapy. Presented to the
Dept. of Psychology, University of Maryland, February 9th, 1972.
Psychodynamics, behavior therapy, and the implacable experimenter. Presented to the
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo Ontario, April 6th, 1972.
On thinking the unthinkable: Behavioral interventions in psychoanalytic and interpersonal
therapies. Presented to the Rapaport Study Group, Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge,
Massachusetts, June 17th, 1972.
Discussant of E. Ortof's "Cognitive changes in psychotherapy." Meeting of the Sullivan Society,
William Alanson White Institute, December 13th, 1972.
Behavioral interventions and the psychotherapeutic relationship. Talk given to the Colloquium of
the Program For Postdoctoral Study and Research in Psychology, New York University, February
26, 1973.
Transference and behavior therapy. Presented to the Institute for Advanced Psychological Study,
Adelphi University, February 26, 1973.
On the rationale for non-intervention by the therapist: A critique. Talk given to the Colloquium
of the Clinical Section, Dept. of Psychiatry, N.Y.U. School of Medicine, November 29th, 1973.
Psychoanalytic theory and theraputic intervention. Presented to the Research Colloquium of the
Jewish Board of Guardians, December 5th, 1973.
Leader of Two-day workshop on the clinical integration of psychodynamic and behavioral
therapies, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, March 7th and 8th, 1974.
Behavior modification with children. Talk to the Multicultural/Multilingual Program, Agency for
Child Development, New York City Human Resources Administration, March 22nd, 1974.
Panelist, symposium on The Limits of Intervention in Analytic Psychotherapy, Program for
Postdoctoral Study and Research in Psychology, New York University, April 26th, 1974.
Intrapsychic structure, interpersonal transaction and therapeutic intervention. Presented to the
Rapaport-Klein Study Group, Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, June 22, 1974.
Cyclical psychological processes: Their implications for personality research and clinical
practice. Presented to the Department of Psychology, New York University, December 9, 1974.
Can psychoanalysis contribute to the practice of behavior therapists? Presented to the Clinical
Psychology Colloquium, State University of New York at Stony Brook, February 20, 1975.
Interpretation and reinforcement. Presented to the Jewish Board of Guardians, April 9, 1975.
Psychodynamic Behavior Therapy: A 5-session colloquium series (with A. Arkin and S. Steiner).
Presented to Program for Postdoctoral Study and Research in Psychology, New York University,
April 30, May 7, 14, 21, 28, 1975.
Plus ca change... : The self pepetuating interaction cycle as a unit for psychotherapists and
personality researchers. Presented to the International Symposium on Interactional Psychology,
Stockholm Sweden, June 23, 1975.
Interpretation and intervention in psychotherapy. Presented to the staff at Austen Riggs Center,
Stockbridge, Massachusetts, August 27, 1975.
Active-intervention dynamic psychotherapy. Presented to the New York University Department
of Student Mental Health, October 22, 1975.
Implications of psychodynamic concepts for behavioral sex therapy. Presented to staff of Sex
Therapy Clinic, SUNY at Stony Brook, January 29, 1976.
The role of conflict, defense and underlying motivation in inferring and changing the cognitions
which guide behavior. Presented at the First National Conference on Cognitive Behavior
Therapy, New York, N.Y., April 3, 1976.
Family potentials: Two therapists' perspectives. Presented at Temple University Conference on
The Family in America, Philadelphia, Pa., April 10, 1976 (with E.F. Wachtel).
Chairman and panelist, Symposium on "The Integration of Psychoanalytic and Non-analytic
Treatment Approaches: The Possibilities and the Problems." New York State Psychological
Association, New York, N. Y., May 1, 1976.
The ethics of psychotherapeutic intervention. Presented at colloquium of the Institute of
Advanced Psychological Studies, Adelphi University, May 5, 1976.
The bearing of traditional clinical concepts on the practice of behavior therapy. Presented to the
Behavior Therapy Society of N. Y., November 20, 1976.
Psychoanalysis and behavior therapy: Is integration possible? Presented to Graduate School of
Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers University, January 28, 1977.
The form and content of interpretations. Presented to the Rapaport-Klein Study Group, Austen
Riggs Center, Stockbridge, Mass., June 19, 1977.
The wording of therapists' comments. Presented to Dept. of Psychology, University of Waterloo,
Ontario, Canada, June 24, 1977.
An integrative approach to psychotherapy. All-day workshop conducted at the Quinco
Consultation Center, Columbus, Indiana, July 8, 1977.
On therapists' comments to patients. Presented to Psychology Dept., Long Island JewishHillside Medical Center, September 12, 1977.
The specifics of therapeutic intervention: An application of a psychodynamic-behavioral
perspective. Presented to the Society of Medical Psychoanalysts, October 19, 1977.
What should we say to our patients?: On some important specifics of therapeutic
technique. Presented to the Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, New
York University, November 4, 1977.
Behavior therapy and psychoanalysis. Dialogue with Joseph Wolpe. N.Y. District Branch of the
American Psychiatric Association, November 10, 1977.
The philosophic and the therapeutic: On the values of psychoanalysis. Presented to the annual
meeting of the Society for Philosophy of Science, Ethics, and Psychotherapy, December 3, 1977.
Confessions of a clinical psychologist. Presented to the Psychology Club, City College,
December 15, 1977.
Behavior therapy and psychoanalysis: The theoretical basis for an unlikely marriage. Invited
address to Ontario Psychological Association. Ottawa, Ontario, February 11, 1978.
On behavioral methods in psychodynamic therapy. Presented to Ph.D. program in Clinical
Psychology, Long Island University, March 16, 1978.
Investigation and its discontents. Presented to the Dept. of Psychology, University of North
Carolina, April 12, 1978.
The wording of therapists' comments in the light of an integration of dynamic and behavioral
approaches. Presented to the Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, Adelphi University,
May 3, 1978.
The use of behavioral methods in psychodynamic psychotherapy. Presented to staff of South
Beach Psychiatric Center, June 27, 1978.
Discussant, Panel on "Real world implications of psychological research." Annual meeting of the
International Society of Political Psychology. New York, September 2, 1978.
Individualism, psychology and the urge for growth. Presented to Institute of Society, Ethics and
the Life Sciences, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, September 21, 1978.
The clinical application of an integration of psychodynamic and behavioral approaches.
Presented to the Boston Institute for Psychotherapies, October 14, 1978.
Problems in Clinical Research. University of Pennsylvania, October 16, 1978.
Ethics and Psychotherapy. Master Lecture Series, Ramapo College, November 15, 1978.
Research, Inquiry and Investigation in Psychology. Presented to Deptof Psychology, University
of Illinois, November 16, 1978.
Discussant, Symposium on "The assessment of cognitive processes and events." Annual meeting
of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Chicago Ill., November 17, 1978.
The image of man in psychodynamic and behavioral theories. Presented at the annual meeting of
the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Chicago Ill., November 17, 1978.
The values and social context of psychotherapy. Presented to Dept. of Psychology, New School
for Social Research, December 14, 1978.
Behavior therapy, multi-modal therapy and psychodynamic therapy. Presented to Dept. of
Psychiatry, Roosevelt Hospital, January 31,1979.
Impediments to Clinical Research. Columbia University, March 9,1979.
The self in America: Past, present and future. Invited presentation, Temple University American
Studies Conference, Philadelphia, Pa., April 1, 1979.
Workshop on behavioral therapy. St Lukes Hospital Dept. of Psychiatry, Oct. 16-17, 1979.
Preconvention Institute on "The use of traditional clinical procedures in behavior therapy."
Annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy. San Francisco,
December 13, 1979.
Three-day workshop on integrative psychotherapy. National University of Mexico, Mexico City,
March 13-15, 1980.
On some misconceptions about psychoanalysis and behavior therapy. Rutgers University
Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, March 26, 1980.
Some further comments on psychodynamic and behavior therapies. Dept. of Psychology, State
University of N.Y. at Buffalo, May 2, 1980.
The history of ego psychology. Presented at Symposium on "Applications of ego psychology
and object relations theory to political behavior" at annual meeting of the International Society of
Political Psychology, Boston, June 7, 1980.
The synergistic relation between psychodynamic and behavioral therapies. Invited address to
Jubilee Conference of the Cassell Hospital, London, England, August 1, 1980.
Active intervention in psychodynamic therapy. Presented to Dept. of Psychiatry, University of
Texas Health Sciences Center at Dallas, September 26, 1980.
An integrative approach to psychotherapy. Invited address to New Jersey Academy of
Psychology, October 8, 1980.
Discussant, symposium on Radical Behaviorist Reconceptualizations of Traditional Clinical
Phenomena. Annual meeting of Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy. New
York: November 17, 1980.
Panelist, symposium on Converging Views on Empirical Clinical Investigation. Annual meeting
of AABT, New York: November 17, 1980.
A synergistic approach to psychotherapy. Yeshiva University conference on family therapy,
January 11, 198l.
Behavioral intervention in psychodynamic therapy. Brooklyn Psychiatric Society, February 26,
1981.
Chairman, symposium on Cognitive Therapy: Psychoanalytic and Behavioral Perspectives.
Annual meeting of American Orthopsychiatric Association, New York, April 1, 1981.
On the essence and the future of psychoanalysis. Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, April
22, l981.
Action and insight: The use of active methods for improved results in psychodynamic therapy.
Workshop presentation, National Institute for the Psychotherapies, October 17, 1981.
Psychoanalysis and behaviorism: Is the conflict resolving? Symposium presentation, New York
University, October 28, 1981.
Psychoanalysis and behavior therapy: Further comments. Dept. of Psychiatry, Roosevelt
Hospital, March 10, 1982.
On the integration of behavior therapy and psychoanalysis, Dept. of Psychiatry, Duke
University, March 25, 1982.
The culture of narcissism revisited. N.E.H. Seminar, University of Maryland, April 15, 1982.
Interpersonal theory and active intervention, Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies,
Adelphi University, April 28, 1982.
Convergence of psychoanalytic and behavioral therapy. All-day presentation and dialogue with
Michael Mahoney. New York City, Institute for Psychosocial Study, May 1, 1982.
Integrative psychodynamic therapy, Dept. of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Hospital, June 1, 1982.
Use of active techniques in dynamic psychotherapy, Albert Einstein College of Medicine,
October 15, 1982.
Active intervention in psychotherapy. Children's Village, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., December 6, 1982.
The social meaning of psychotherapy, Invited address, International Conference on the
Psychotherapies, Bogota, Colombia, February 24, 1983.
Two-day workshop in integrating psychodynamic and behavioral therapies. Universidad de los
Andes, Bogota, Colombia, Feb. 24-25, 1983.
Discussant, Symposium on multiple therapies with the same client. Eastern Psychological
Association, Philadelphia, April 8, 1983.
Problems in therapeutic integration. Talk to Behavior Therapy Unit, Payne Whitney Psychiatric
Clinic, April 19, 1983.
Bridging the resistance gap (with E. Wachtel). Chicago Family Institute, April 23, 1983.
Multiple therapies. Metropolitan College Mental Health Association, April 27, 1983.
Dealing with resistance. Dept. of Psychiatry, St. Joseph's Hospital, Syracuse, N. Y., April 29,
1983.
Varieties of integration in psychotherapy. Dept. of Psychiatry, Hahnemann Medical College,
May 11, 1983.
Panelist, Conference on From Resistance to Alliance in Family Therapy, Atlanta, Georgia, June
4, l983.
Symposium presentation, From Neutrality to Influence in Psychoanalysis, Fortieth Anniversary
Conference, William Alanson White Institute, New York, November 5, 1983.
Symposium presentation, The Clinical Applicability of Behavior Therapy, Annual meeting of the
Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Washington, D.C., December 10, 1983.
Discussant, Symposium on Resistance in Psychoanalytic, Family Systems, and CognitiveBehavioral Therapies, Annual meeting of New York State Psychological Association, April 27,
1984.
Workshop on Integrative Approaches to Difficult Clinical Problems, Presented to the Mental
Health Association of Dutchess County, May 18, 1984.
The Applications of an Integrative Psychotherapeutic Approach. Memorial Sloane-Kettering
Cancer Center, June 7, 1984.
Discussant, symposium on Integrative Family Therapy, Annual meeting of the American Family
Therapy Association, New York, June 16, 1984.
Two perspectives on a clinical case (with Marvin Goldfried), Clinical Psychology
Ph.D. Program, New York University, September 17, 1984.
Recent contributions to therapeutic integration. Presented to Dept. of Psychology, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass., Nov. 19, 1984.
Poverty: A Psychological Perspective. The Dean's Lecture Series, Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry,
N. Y., December 13, 1984.
Reflections on psychoanalysis and behavior therapy. Presented to Clinical Psychology Doctoral
program, Temple University, January 28, 1985.
One plus one equals zero: The paradox of affluence. Presented to St. Joseph's University
Chapter, Xi Chi, Philadelphia, January 29, 1985.
Psychotherapy integration from a psychodynamic base. Presented at Third International
Colloquium on Integration in Psychotherapy. Montreal, Canada, May 10, 1985.
Dialogue on psychotherapy integration. First annual meeting of the Society for the Exploration
of Psychotherapy Integration, Annapolis, Md., June 8, 1985.
Discussant, panel on Points of contact: Psychoanalytic therapy and behavior therapy. First
annual meeting of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Annapolis, Md.,
June 8, 1985.
The social implications of psychoanalysis. Presented to Rapaport-Klein Study Group, Austen
Riggs Center, Stockbridge, Mass., June 15, 1985.
From eclecticism to integration: A case illustration. New School for Social Research, November
7, 1985.
Family dynamics in individual psychotherapy (presentation with E. F. Wachtel). All day
workshop sponsored by Evaluation Research Associates (E.R.A.), Boston, March 1, 1986.
Issues in psychotherapy integration (with Marvin R. Goldfried). Dialogue initiating the first
meeting of the New York branch of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration,
March 8, 1986.
Workshop Chairman, Panel on conceptual issues in psychotherapy integration. N.I.M.H.
Bethesda, March 13 and 14, 1986.
Family dynamics in individual psychotherapy (E.R.A.), Cleveland, March 15, 1986.
Discussant, Paper by Jeffrey Rubin, M.D. on Mourning and melancholia: A characterological and
cultural perspective. Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis, New York, April 16,
1986.
Integrating individual and family therapy. Annual meeting of the Society for the Exploration of
Psychotherapy Integration. Toronto, May 3, 1986.
Paradigms for integration. Annual meeting of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy
Integration. Toronto, May 4, 1986.
Family dynamics in individual psychotherapy (E.R.A.), New York, May 10, 1986.
Family dynamics in individual psychotherapy (E.R.A.), Pittsburgh, May 17, 1986.
Exploring the Contextual Unconscious and the Power of Active Intervention. All-day workshop,
Clinical Training and Education Associates, Ann Arbor, MI, July 21, 1986.
Active Intervention in Dynamic Psychotherapy. Institute of Psychology, University of Oslo,
Norway. Sept. 24, 1986.
Integrative approaches to psychotherapy. Two-day workshop, Institute of Clinical Psychology,
University of Bergen, Norway, Sept. 25-26, 1986.
Psychoanalysis and behavior therapy: Recent developments. Invited two-day workshop,
Kentucky Psychological Association, Frankfort, Kentucky, October 17-18, 1986.
Should psychoanalytic training be training to be a psychoanalyst? Paper presented at the Clark
Conference on Psychoanalytic Training, Division 39, American Psychological Association,
Worcester, Mass., October 26, 1986.
Family dynamics in individual psychotherapy: II (presentation with E. F. Wachtel). All day
workshop sponsored by Evaluation Research Associates (E.R.A.), New Haven, November 8,
1986.
Circles, transactions, and psychological change. Paper presented at conference on Process,
Context, and Perspective in Psychology sponsored by University of Massachusetts, November
14, 1986.
Family dynamics in individual psychotherapy: II (E.R.A.), Washington, D. C., December 6,
1986.
Family dynamics in individual psychotherapy: II (E.R.A.), Newark, N. J., December 13, 1986.
Family dynamics in individual psychotherapy: II (E.R.A.), Tampa, Florida, January 17, 1987.
An integrative model of development and its implications for psychotherapy. Presented to Dept.
of Human Development, Bryn Mawr College, February 6, 1987.
The relevance of family systems for the practice of individual psychotherapy. Institute for
Advanced Studies in Psychotherapy, Burlington, Vermont, March 14, 1987.
The contextual unconscious and active intervention. Convalescent Hospital for Children,
Rochester, N. Y., April 3, 1987.
Discussion of a case of panic disorder and agoraphobia treated by multiple therapeutic
interventions. Third Annual Meeting of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy
Integration. Evanston, Illinois, May 1, 1987.
Truth and reality: A psychodynamic-behavioral integration (with M. Weiner). Third Annual
Meeting of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Evanston, Illinois, May
2, 1987.
Green politics and the desires of individuals. Department of Environmental Conservation
Education, New York University, May 5, 1987.
Discussant, Symposium on Behavioral Analysis: Integration With Other Approaches. Annual
convention of the American Psychological Association, New York, September 1, 1987.
When Sigmund Freud meets Milton Friedman: Social and Interpersonal Context in
Psychotherapy. Dept. of Psychology, Yale University, Sept. 30, 1987.
Integrating individual and family therapy. Alabama Association of Licensed Psychologists,
Birmingham, AL, October 23, 1987.
Psychological imperatives and the growth ideology. Center for Reflection on the Second Law,
Raleigh, N. C., November 20, 1987.
Alternative value systems and the case against growth. Conference on Economics As If the
Earth Matters, Raleigh, N. C., November 21, 1987.
Should interpersonal analysts analyze. Presented to the Interpersonal-Humanistic track,
Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, New York University, December 4,
1987.
Affluence and discontent. Seattle University, January 14, 1988.
Integrative psychotherapy: Family systems, psychodynamics, and active intervention. Two-day
invited workshop, University of Washington, January 15 and 16, 1988.
The role of accomplices in generating and curing psychopathology. Doctoral Program in
Clinical Psychology, Long Island University, March 2, 1988.
Discussant, panel on schema-focused cognitive therapy for personality disorders. Annual
meeting of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Cambridge, MA, April
22, 1988.
Psychotherapy, values and the real world. Annual meeting of the Society for the Exploration of
Psychotherapy Integration, Cambridge, MA, April 22, 1988.
On the compatibility of psychodynamic and systems approaches. Keynote address, Conference
on "The Integration of Psychodynamic and Systems Approaches to Couples Therapy," McLean
Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, May 21, 1988.
Interface between individual and family therapy. Five day workshop (with E. F. Wachtel). Cape
Cod Summer Symposia, Eastham, Mass., June 20-24, 1988.
The role of "accomplices" in preventing and facilitating change. Presented at conference on
How People Change, Adelphi University, Sept. 30, 1988.
Discussant, symposium on Possibilities for unification in behaviorism. Annual Meeting of the
Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, New York, November 17, 1988.
The centrality of anxiety in psychodynamic theory: Aproaching anxiety from a cyclical
psychodynamic perspective. Presented at conference on Advances in Theory and Treatment of
Anxiety Disorders, Philadelphia, April 14, 1989.
Workshop: An integrative approach to anxiety. Presented at conference on Advances in Theory
and Treatment of Anxiety Disorders, Philadelphia, April 15, 1989.
The Poverty of Affluence. First Unitarian Universalist Church, New Haven, Connecticut, April
23, 1989.
When therapists are helpful. Paper presented in Symposium on What Is Support in
Psychotherapy and Is It Good or Bad? Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Exploration
of Psychotherapy Integration. Berkeley, California, April 28, 1989.
Resistance in psychotherapy. Presented at Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society for the
Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration. Berkeley, California, April 29, 1989.
Discussant, Symposium on Putting Insight to Work: Integrating Insight-Oriented Interventions
with Active Change Strategies. Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Exploration of
Psychotherapy Integration. Berkeley, California, April 29, 1989.
The contextual self. Presented to the Center on Violence and Human Survival, John Jay College,
May 4, 1989.
Placing the self in context. Paper presented at conference on Escape from Self: Dysfunctional
Solutions to Life's Problems. Long Island Institute for Psychoanalysis, May 6, 1989.
Karen Horney, Social Neurosis and the Analysis of American Culture. Presented to the
Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis and Karen Horney Clinic, New York, New
York, May 18, 1989.
Vicious circles and how to break them. Five day workshop (presented with Ellen F. Wachtel),
Cape Cod Summer Symposia, New England Educational Institute, Eastham, Mass., July 17-21,
1989.
The Poverty of Affluence. La Salle University. October 24, 1989.
Power, money, success and the pursuit of happiness. Wake Forest University, November 1,
1989.
The meaning of money and possessions. Convocation Lecture, Mt. Union College, Alliance,
Ohio, November 8. 1989.
False profits: When wealth does not bring satisfaction. Colorado College Symposium on Wealth,
Colorado Springs, January 10, 1990.
The vital interface: Family therapy and individual therapy. All-day workshop presented to the
Psychological Forum and the Wright Institute, San Francisco, April 7, 1990.
Panelist, symposium on Psychotherapeutic Failures. Annual meeting of the Society for the
Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Philadelphia, April 27, 1990.
Videotape and panel discussion: Integrative psychotherapy. Annual meeting of the Society for
the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Philadelphia, April 28, 1990.
Clinical implications of an integrated therapeutic point of view. Clinical Psychology Division,
Dept. of Psychiatry, Yale University, June 5, 1990
Psychology, values, and economics. Plenary address to The Other Economic Summit. Houston,
Texas, July 7, 1990.
Chairman, panel on Redefining Prosperity. The Other Economic Summit. Houston, Texas, July
7, 1990.
The poverty of affluence. George A. Miller Endowment Lecture, University of Illinois, October
2, 1990.
Crisis in the Gulf: Underlying assumptions about human needs. Washington & Jefferson
College, November 8, 1990.
Integrative psychodynamic therapy: Theoretical foundations and clinical applications. Friends
Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, November 30, 1990.
Discussant, panel on Altruism: Empirical Studies, Annual Meeting of the American Economics
Association, Washington, D.C., December 29, 1990.
Alternatives to growth. Forum lecture series, Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pa, February 6,
1991.
Economic growth and individual well-being. Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia,
March 6, 1991.
The illusions of the consumer way of life. Albion College Symposium, Beyond Earth Day:
Environmental Perils and Prospects, Albion, Michigan, March 12, 1991.
Therapeutic and anti-therapeutic uses of language. General Psychiatry Practice, Mass. General
Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, March 25, 1991.
The centrality of vicious circles in psychopathology and psychotherapy. Grand Rounds
presentation, Dept. of Psychiatry, Mass. General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, March 26,
1991.
Can psychodynamics be integrative? Presented to Graduate School of Applied and Professional
Psychology, Rutgers University, April 12, 1991.
Culture and psychotherapy. Plenary address at Seventh Annual Meeting of the Society for the
Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, London, England, July 12, 1991.
Panelist, symposium on Psychoanalytic and behavior therapy: What can and cannot be
integrated? Seventh Annual Meeting of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy
Integration, London, England, July 14, 1991.
Living responsibly: Technological, economic, and ethical challenges to our environment.
Marywood College, Scranton, Pennsylvania. September 25, 1991.
Integrative approaches to psychotherapy. Invited full day workshop jointly sponsored by Maine
Psychological Association, Society of Maine Psychologists, and VA Cooperative Health
Education Program, October 11, 1991.
On developmental arrest: Development is never arrested, but sometimes it's put on probation.
New School for Social Research, October 24, 1991.
Affirmation and interpretation in integrative psychodynamic therapy. Annual meeting of the
New Jersey Psychological Association, Somerset, N. J., November 2, 1991.
The language of psychotherapists. Keynote Address, Annual meeting of the New Jersey
Psychological Association, Somerset, N. J., November 2, 1991.
A model of integration in psychotherapy: Exploring the cognitive unconscious and the power of
active intervention. Three-day workshop, Centro de Estudios Humanos, Buenos Aires,
Argentina, November 11-13, 1991.
The integration of individual and systemic perspectives. Centro Privado de Psicoterapia, Buenos
Aires, Argentina, November 11, 1991.
Clinical applications of a cyclical psychodynamic point of view. Centro de Terapia Cognitiva,
Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 12, 1991.
Cyclical psychodynamics: Integration between psychoanalysis and behavior therapy. University
of Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 13, 1991.
On psychotherapy integration. Centro Asistencial AIGLE, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November
14, 1991.
A model of integration in psychotherapy. Faculty of Psychology, University of Buenos Aires,
Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 15, 1991.
Current reflections on the poverty of affluence. Student Programs Lecture Series, Widener
University, Chester, PA, January 27, 1992.
The integration of psychodynamic and behavioral modalities. School of Professional
Psychology, Widener University, January 28, 1992.
Introduction of Seymour Sarason: History of American psychology from a personal point of
view. New York Academy of Sciences, February 15, 1992.
The politics of poverty and affluence. Carnegie-Mellon University, March 9, 1992.
Affluence and well-being. Juniata College, Huntington, PA, March 25, 1992.
Environmental and social consequences of consumerism. Minot State University, Minot, North
Dakota, April 2, 1992.
Discussant, symposium on Assessing the best level of intervention in psychotherapy. Eighth
Annual Meeting of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, San Diego,
California, April 4, 1992.
Interpretation: The misunderstood ingredient. Paper presented at symposium on When we talk
about empathy and interpretation, are we all talking about the same things? Eighth Annual
Meeting of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, San Diego, California,
April 4, 1992.
Panelist, symposium on The future of SEPI: Where do we go from here? Eighth Annual
Meeting of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, San Diego, California,
April 4, 1992.
Vicious circles and how to break them. Week-long symposium, Cape Cod Summer Symposia,
Eastham, MA, July 20-24, 1992.
Active intervention in psychoanalytic practice. Washington Psychoanalytic Society.
Washington, DC, October 9, 1992.
The therapist's comments to the patient: What is therapeutic and what is antitherapeutic?
National Institute for the Psychotherapies, November 22, 1992.
Psychological reflections on race relations in America. Center on Violence and Human Survival,
John Jay College, November 23, 1992.
Cyclical psychodynamics: Therapeutic implications. Donnelly Lecture, Northwestern Medical
School, Chicago, Illinois, March 17, 1993.
New perspectives on the poverty of affluence. Annual lecture at Mount Marty College, Yankton,
South Dakota, March 25, 1993
Health care, unemployment and the environment: Unrecognized connections. Annual meeting of
the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, New York City, March 27, 1993.
Discussant, Symposium on Redefining Socio-Ecological Wealth: Measurement, Concepts,
Shortcomings. Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics,
New York City, March 27, 1993.
Psychoanalysis and family systems. Thirteenth annual spring meeting, Division of
Psychoanalysis, American Psychological Association, New York, April 15, 1993.
The movement toward integrative therapy: Personal reflections. Conference on Development of
Ideas in Psychology, Departments of Psychology and Philosophy, City College of New York,
April 22, 1993.
Moderator and Discussant, Opening Plenary Session on Integrative Developments Within
Psychoanalysis and Behavior Therapy, Ninth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Exploration
of Psychotherapy Integration, New York City, April 23, 1993.
Cyclical psychodynamic psychotherapy: Demonstration and discussion. Ninth Annual Meeting
of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, New York City, April 24, 1993.
The counselor's communications. Keynote address, Texas Counseling Association Annual
Meeting, Galveston, Texas, November 4, 1993.
Discussant, Panel on The Clinton Presidency and the Psychology of Public Policy: Dilemmas
and Opportunities. Conference on The Clinton Presidency: Campaigning, Governing, and the
Psychology of Political Leadership. New York, November 19, 1993.
Cyclical psychodynamics. Workshop presented at conference on Brief Therapy: Essence and
Evolution, The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Orlando, Florida, December 9, 1993.
Panelist, Symposium on Psychotherapy: Art or Science? Conference on Brief Therapy: Essence
and Evolution, The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Orlando, Florida, December 10, 1993.
Panelist, Symposium on The Use of Theory in Clinical Practice, Conference on Brief Therapy:
Essence and Evolution, The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Orlando, Florida, December 10,
1993.
Panelist, Symposium on Psychotherapy Integration, Conference on Brief Therapy: Essence and
Evolution, The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Orlando, Florida, December 11, 1993.
Effective therapeutic communication with individuals and couples. Workshop presented at
conference on Brief Therapy: Essence and Evolution, The Milton H. Erickson Foundation,
Orlando, Florida, December 12, 1993.
Therapeutic communication with individuals and couples. Vermont Mental Health Counselors
Association, Burlington, VT, January 21, 1994 (with Ellen F. Wachtel).
Overconsumption: Lessons from psychology for politics and economics. Presented at
conference on Global Political Ecology, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University,
North York, Ontario, March 3, 1994.
Poverty, affluence, and relative deprivation. Concord College, Athens, West Virginia, March 9,
1994.
Achieving gains and avoiding pitfalls in couples therapy: Psychodynamic and systemic
perspectives. National Institute for the Psychotherapies, New York, N Y, March 19, 1994.
Psychoanalysis and family systems. Presented to Clinical Psychology Section and Clinical Child
Psychology Sections of the Hungarian Psychological Association, Hungarian Academy of
Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, March 29, 1994.
The integration of psychotherapeutic approaches. Hungarian Association for Group
Psychotherapy, Budapest, Hungary, March 30, 1994.
Relation between psychoanalysis and cognitive behavior therapy. Cognitive Behavioral Training
Group, Psychiatric Clinic of Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, March 31, 1994.
Therapeutic communication and cyclical psychodynamics. Association of Alumni of the Yeshiva
University Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, April 6, 1994.
Cyclical psychodynamics: An integrative approach to psychotherapy. Department of Psychiatry,
University of Toronto, April 27, 1994.
Panelist, symposium on "Psychotherapy integration: Ten years after. Tenth Annual Meeting of
the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 8,
1994.
Discussant, symposium on "Empathic inquiry and understanding." Tenth Annual Meeting of the
Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 9, 1994.
Discussant, symposium on "The future of psychotherapy integration: From identity to diversity?
Tenth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Buenos
Aires, Argentina, July 10, 1994.
Workshop on Pathways to Psychotherapy Integration, University of San Luis, San Luis,
Argentina, July 12, 1994.
Workshop on Therapeutic Communication with Individuals and Couples, CECIDEP Institute,
Santiago, Chile, July 18, 1994.
Misunderstandings about the good life. Annual Convocation Address, State University of New
York College at Fredonia, September 27, 1994.
Consumption, satisfaction, and self-deception. Conference on Consumption, Global
Stewardship, and the Good Life, Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, University of
Maryland, September 30, 1994.
Panelist, conference on "The crisis in psychology," John Jay College, December 2, 1994.
Panelist, Symposium on "Integrating relationship influences and technique influences in the
process of psychotherapy." Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for the Exploration of
Psychotherapy Integration, Washington, D.C., April 7, 1995.
The integration of knowledge in the social sciences. New School for Social Research, May 4,
1995.
Discussant, Conference on "Racial and Ethnic Conflict in America: Black/Jewish tensions in
New York." National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, Center for the
Psychoanalytic Study of Social Trauma, New York, May 7, 1995.
Therapeutic action: New developments in psychotherapy integration. University of Belgrano,
Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 29-June 3, 1995.
The surface is deep: The metaphor of depth in discussions of consciousness and
unconsciousness. Paper presented at Adelphi University Centennial Conference on Frontiers of
Consciousness: Perspectives from Psychoanalysis, Psychology, and Philosophy. November 18,
1995.
Shrinking hopes in a growing economy. Invited speaker, Dean's lecture series. Loyola College of
Baltimore, February 21, 1996.
Discussant, "Love on the dark side: Encounters with madness," New York Chapter, Society for
the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, March 16, 1996.
Relational foundations of psychotherapy integration. Ph.D. Program in Clinical Psychology,
Teachers College of Columbia University, April 18, 1996.
Combining insight and action in psychotherapy. Institute for Psychotherapy Integration, San
Francisco, CA, May 18, 1996.
What should we be saying to our patients? Baltimore Society for Psychoanalytic Studies, June 2,
1996.
Active intervention in the context of psychodynamic psychotherapy. Harvard Medical School
conference on Integrating Psychotherapies. Cambridge, MA, June 7, 1996.
Therapeutic change: Moving from insight to action. AIGLE Institute, Buenos Aires, Argentina,
September 4, 1996.
New developments in psychotherapy integration. CECIDEP Institute, Santiago, Chile,
September 7, 1996.
Advances in therapeutic communication. Invited presentation, Annual meeting of the Michigan
Psychological Association, Ypsilanti, Michigan, October 12, 1996.
What therapists say to patients: The good, the bad, and the therapeutic. The Brief Therapy
Conference, Milton H. Erickson Foundation, San Francisco, CA, Dec 12, 1996.
Panelist, symposium on "The history of brief therapy," The Brief Therapy Conference, Milton H.
Erickson Foundation, San Francisco, CA, Dec 13, 1996.
Panelist, symposium on "Therapy and social issues," The Brief Therapy Conference, Milton H.
Erickson Foundation, San Francisco, CA, Dec 14, 1996.
Mark my words: Advanced techniques for promoting therapeutic change through the therapist's
choice of language. The Brief Therapy Conference, Milton H. Erickson Foundation, San
Francisco, CA, Dec 14, 1996.
Pre-convention workshop: Effective therapeutic communication. Annual Meeting of the Society
for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Toronto, Ontario, April 24, 1997.
Discussant, Research-informed psychotherapy. Annual Meeting of the Society for the
Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Toronto, Ontario, April 25, 1997.
Matching technique to therapist style, Symposium on Choosing Not Just the Right Technique but
the Right Therapist, Annual Meeting of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy
Integration, Toronto, Ontario, April 26, 1997.
Dimensions of therapeutic communication. Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine,
Akron, Ohio, May 16, 1997.
Psychological contributions to understanding race relations: Are concepts like identity, conflict,
and defense useful? Annual meeting of the Rapaport-Klein Study Group, Stockbridge, MA, June
15, 1997.
Going beyond our training: New approaches to integrative psychotherapy. The New Learning
Center, Westport, CT, December 12, 1997.
The psychology of consumerism. Conference on Voluntary Simplicity, New York Open Center,
March 7, 1998.
Rebuilding cooperative community: Why do we compete? Conference on Voluntary Simplicity,
New York Open Center, March 7, 1998.
Discussant, “Unprotected sex and the gay male patient: An integrated approach.” New York
Society for Psychotherapy Integration, March 29, 1998.
What Therapists say to patients: The good, the bad, and the therapeutic, Solutions Training
Institute, Columbus, Indiana, April 24, 1998.
Integrative therapy: Psychoanalysis, behavior therapy, and the relational world. Solutions
Training Institute, Columbus, Indiana, April 25, 1998.
Clinical implications of psychotherapy integration, Instituto CECIDEP, Santiago, Chile, May 30,
1998
Psychotherapy integration and the social context, Instituto AIGLE, Buenos Aires, Argentina,
June 1, 1998
Arriving at psychotherapy integration from a psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral
orientation, Annual meeting of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration,
Madrid, Spain, July 3, 1998
Social, personal, and theoretical assumptions in the construction of a theoretical and clinical
approach, Annual meeting of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration,
Madrid, Spain, July 3, 1998
Insight and action in psychotherapy. Centro de Terapia Cognitiva, Barcelona, Spain, July 7,
1998
Psychotherapy integration and clinical practice, Instituto de Estudios Psicoterapias, Bilbao,
Spain, July 9, 1998
Advances in the theory and practice of psychotherapy, Instituto de Estudios Psicoterapias,
Santander Spain, July 10, 1998.
If it's the talking cure, what should I say?: Finding the Language That Helps People Change and
Avoiding the Pitfalls That Impede It. Cape Cod Institute, Eastham, MA, August 3rd-August 7th,
1998
Maximizing change and minimizing resistance. Workshop presented to Department of
Psychology, University of Tromsoe, Norway, September 7, 1998.
Strategies for integrative thinking in psychology and psychotherapy. The 1998 Nordlys Lecture,
University of Tromsoe, Norway, September 8, 1998.
Cyclical psychodynamics and effective therapeutic communication: Combining action and
insight in psychotherapy. North Carolina Psychological Association, 50th anniversary meeting,
invited address October 2, 1998;
Combining active intervention and psychodynamic insights. New Jersey Psychological
Association, October 24, 1998.
What should we say to our patients? Therapists' language and effective psychotherapy. New
Jersey Psychological Association, October 24, 1998.
Chair and discussant, Symposium on "Integrative psychotherapy in addressing the extremes of
human endurance and suffering. Annual meeting of the Society for the Exploration of
Psychotherapy Integration, Miami, Florida, April 23, 1999.
Discussant, Symposium on "Therapeutic termination: Principles and obstacles. Annual meeting
of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Miami, Florida, April 24, 1999.
Interpersonal and attachment perspectives on developing therapeutic alliances: The validity of
SASB and narrative coherency in predicting brief psychotherapy treatment failures. Annual
meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Braga, Portugal, June 16, 1999 (with L. W.
Samstag, J. C. Muran, A. Slade, and A. Winston)
Psychoanalysis and EMDR: An intruguing interface. Annual meeting of the EMDR International
Association, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 19, 1999.
Therapeutic Communication: If It's the Talking Cure, What Should I Say? Five-day workshop,
Cape Cod Summer Symposium, Eastham, MA, August 2-6, 1999.
Reflections on the poverty of affluence. Second Annual Conference on Voluntary Simplicity,
New York Open Center, October 23, 1999
Creating deficiency: The psychology of advertising. Second Annual Conference on Voluntary
Simplicity, New York Open Center, October 23, 1999
A dialogue on race. Relational forum of the NYU Postdoctoral Program, October 24, 1999
Finding the language that helps people change and avoiding the pitfalls that impede it. Seventh
Annual Santa Fe Symposium, Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 29-November 1, 1999
Race in America: What can we talk about and what can’t we? Temple Issues Forum, Temple
University, Philadelphia, PA, November 9, 1999
Cyclical Psychodynamics: An Integrative Theory of Personality and Psychotherapy. Institute of
Clinical Psychology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, December 16, 1999
The evolution of psychotherapy integration. Invited lecture, Dutch Society for Psychotherapy,
Amsterdam, Holland, December 17, 1999
Cyclical psychodynamics: Theory and practice. Invited workshop, Dutch Society for
Psychotherapy, Amsterdam, Holland, December 17, 1999
Developments in the use of language in psychotherapy. Clinical psychology doctoral program,
Columbia University, February 10, 2000
Therapeutic communication: What to say when. Family Therapy Network Symposium,
Washington, DC, March 31, 2000
From Psychoanalysis to Couples Therapy. Invited address, Westchester Association for
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, April 1, 2000
Racism, Vicious Circles, and the Psychoanalytic Vision. Division of Psychoanalysis, American
Psychological Association, San Francisco, April 8, 2000
Integrating EMDR within an already integrative therapy. Annual Meeting of the Society for the
Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Washington, DC, May 8, 2000
Specificity and the future of psychotherapy integration. Annual Meeting of the Society for the
Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Washington, DC, May 8, 2000
Finding the Language that Really Helps People Change. Five-day workshop, Cape Cod Summer
Symposium, Eastham, MA, August 14-18, 2000
The talking cure: What the therapist says and what he or she should say. Invited address,
National Association of Social Workers, St. Paul, MN, October 19, 2000
Combining insight and active intervention, Invited address, The Clinician’s Institute for Training
and Education, Toronto, Ontario, December 1, 2000
Effective Therapeutic Language, Invited address, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario,
December 2, 2000
Panelist, Presidential Symposium: Psychoanalysis and graduate education in psychology, Annual
Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association, New York, NY, December 15, 2000
Full pockets, empty lives: A psychoanalytic exploration of the contemporary culture of greed.
The 2001 Annual Karen Horney Lecture, Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis,
New York, March 30, 2001
Perspectives on therapeutic communication. Invited address, Universidad de Belgrano, Buenos
Aires Argentina, June 11, 2001.
Language as a key dimension in psychotherapy integration. Invited address, Universidad
Maimonides, Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 12, 2001.
Strategies for theory and practice in the integration of therapeutic approaches. Invited address,
Centro Cientifico de Desarrollo Psicologico, Santiago, Chile, June 14, 2001.
What works in psychotherapy? Annual Meeting of the Society for the Exploration of
Psychotherapy Integration, Santiago, Chile, June 15, 2001.
Panelist, International clinical symposium, Annual Meeting of the Society for the Exploration of
Psychotherapy Integration, Santiago, Chile, June 15, 2001.
Containers and projective identification: What utility do these concepts have in psychotherapy
integration? Annual Meeting of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration,
Santiago, Chile, June 15, 2001.
Race relations and academic performance. Invited address, DeVry Institute of Technology, June
22, 2001
Five day workshop: If it’s the talking cure, what should I say? New England Educational
Institute, Eastham, MA, July 2-6, 2001.
Greed, materialism, and the subtleties of subjectivity. Presented to program in personality and
social psychology, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, October 10, 2001.
Meaning and money: The psychological foundations and psychological consequences of
materialism and consumerism. The Eighth Annual Lindemann Lecture, Adelphi University,
October 24, 2001.
Discussion group leader, Relational Analysts at Work: Sense and Sensibility. International
Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, New York, January 19, 2002.
Discussant, panel on “Does race matter?” National Psychological Association for
Psychoanalysis, New York, NY, February 16, 2002.
Values, Therapy, and the World Since September 11 th. The Robert T.M. James Memorial
Lecture,
General Practice Psychotherapy Association, 15th Annual Conference Keynote Address, Toronto,
Ontario, April 11, 2002.
Language, Change and the Therapist's Skillfulness, General Practice Psychotherapy Association,
15th Annual Conference, Toronto, Ontario, April 12, 2002.
The Integration of Psychodynamic and Cognitive/Behavioral Therapies. Joint colloquium,
University of Western Ontario, University of Waterloo (Ontario), University of Windsor
(Ontario), and Grand River Hospital Internship Program (Kitchener, Ontario). London, Ontario,
April 12, 2002.
Implications of the Two-Configurations Model for the Analysis of Social and Political
Phenomena. Annual meeting of Division 39, American Psychological Association, New York,
April 13, 2002.
Integrative psychotherapy: Theory and practice. Invited address, Lehigh Valley Psychological
Association, Allentown, PA, April 19, 2002
The power and subtlety of the therapist’s language. Invited address, Lehigh Valley Psychological
Association, Allentown, PA, April 19, 2002
Making the unconscious conscious – sometimes. Annual Meeting of the Society for the
Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, San Francisco, May 3, 2002
Using EMDR in a psychoanalytic context. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Exploration of
Psychotherapy Integration, San Francisco, May 4, 2002
An integrative approach to the therapist’s use of language: A five day workshop. New England
Educational Institute, Eastham, MA, August 12-16, 2002
Discussant, keynote address by John Edgar Wideman, National conference on The American
Dilemma Revisited: Psychoanalysis, Social Policy, and the Socio-Cultural Meaning of Race,
New York, November 1, 2002.
Vicious circles and the roots of racial conflict. National conference on The American Dilemma
Revisited: Psychoanalysis, Social Policy, and the Socio-Cultural Meaning of Race, New York
NY, November 2, 2002.
From the Abstract and Arcane to the Concrete and Clinical: Working with Dreams, Internalized
Objects, and Other Important but Potentially Mystifying Clinical Phenomena. Invited address,
doctoral program in clinical psychology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, February 20,
2003.
Maximizing therapeutic change: How what we say and how we say it can make the difference
between therapeutic success and failure. Invited address, New Hampshire Psychological
Association, April 4, 2003
Revisioning the Inner world: A reexamination of the psychoanalytic approach to trauma and to
“reality” Invited address, William Alanson White Institute, New York, April 9, 2003
Invited participant, seminar on Memory and International Conflict, John F. Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University, April 18, 2003.
Chair, panel on Psychotherapy Integration: A World-View Perspective. Annual Meeting of the
Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, New York, May 2, 2003
Bridging the divide between blacks & whites in America: Integrating concepts and strategies for
change .Annual Meeting of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, New
York, May 3, 2003
Discussant, Panel on The Future of Psychotherapy Integration: The New Generation. Annual
Meeting of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, New York, May 4,
2003.
Panelist, Closing Plenary: A dialogue on twenty years of psychotherapy integration. Annual
Meeting of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, New York, May 4, 2003
Psychodynamics of racism. Faculty Resource Network, New York University, June 10, 2003.
Interracial and interethnic vicious circles. Faculty Resource Network, New York University,
June 11, 2003.
Integrative psychotherapy: Theory and practice. Invited address, University of Lisbon, Lisbon,
Portugal, September 19, 2003.
Explorations in therapeutic language. Invited address, Portugese Association for Cognitive and
Behavioral Therapy, Lisbon, Portugal, September 20, 2003.
The language of the therapist and the process of change. Invited address, Chilean Institute for
Psychotherapy Integration, Santiago, Chile, November 15, 2003.
The present status of psychotherapy integration. Invited address, Institute AIGLE and
Universidad Maemonides, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 17, 2003.
Comments on a case of depression. Centro AIGLE de Estudios Humanos. Buenos Aires,
Argentian, November 18, 2003.
The relational foundations of integrative psychotherapy: Achieving a comprehensive
understanding and translating it into effective interventions and communications. Invited
workshop, Athens Area Psychological Association, Athens, Georgia, February 20, 2004.
The language of therapy: Promoting change while reducing resistance. Twelfth Annual KaiserPermanente Northern California Regional Psychiatry Conference, Alliance and Innovation:
Treating Challenging Patients. San Francisco, April 24, 2004.
Panelist, Plenary session on continuities and discontinuities between seven psychoanalytic
theories and the relational perspective. Biennial Conference of The International Association of
Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Los Angeles, CA, May 2, 2004.
Panelist, Psychoanalysis and politics. National Institute for the Psychotherapies, New York, May
5, 2004.
Re-examining the relational paradigm: What's new? What's good? Rapaport-Klein Study Group,
Stockbridge, MA, June 12, 2004.
Relational psychoanalysis as a foundation for psychotherapy integration. Annual meeting of the
Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Amsterdam, Holland, June 25, 2004.
Discussant, panel on The implications of academic research in personality and developmental
psychology for the practice of psychotherapy. Annual meeting of the Society for the Exploration
of Psychotherapy Integration, Amsterdam, Holland, June 26, 2004.
Panelist, closing plenary on the future of psychotherapy integration. Annual meeting of the
Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Amsterdam, Holland, June 27, 2004.
The continuing evolution of psychotherapy integration. Invited address, Payne Whitney
Psychiatric Clinic, Behavior Therapy Training Program, December 3, 2004.
Discussant, Panel on borderline personality disorder: Choosing a treatment. Annual meeting of
the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Toronto, May 6, 2005.
Relational psychoanalysis as cause and effect in psychotherapy integration. Annual meeting of
the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Toronto, May 6, 2005.
Discussant, Panel on Cultural integration: How psychotherapists modify and introduce theories
of psychotherapy into an other culture. Annual meeting of the Society for the Exploration of
Psychotherapy Integration, Toronto, May 7, 2005.
Identifying cyclical patterns: A key to unified meta-theory. Annual meeting of the Society for the
Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Toronto, May 8, 2005.
Discussant, conference on Mentalization, Internalization, and Representation: Reflecting on the
Future of Psychoanalysis, New York, September 16, 2005.
Can’t get no satisfaction: The psychodynamics of life in the consumer society. Invited
presentation to the School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago, October 20,
2005.
Integrating interpretation and relationship: A two-person approach to therapeutic communication.
University of Chicago, October 21, 2005.
Vicious circles in interracial experience and interaction. Seminar on race, racism, and
psychoanalysis, New York University, October 31, 2005.
Probing the Relational Paradigm: Confusions, Opportunities, Misperceptions, Potentials.
Invited address,
Derner Institute, Adelphi University, November 9, 2005.
Innovations in Relational Theory and Practice. Invited address, National Institute for the
Psychotherapies. New York, NY, December 3, 2005.
Integrating psychoanalysis with other clinical approaches: Diluting the “pure gold” or activating
it more powerfully? Mid-Winter Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association, New
York, NY, January 21, 2006.
Relational psychoanalysis and the integration of scientific and experiential-humanistic
perspectives. Keynote address, Italian Society for Psychotherapy Integration, Florence, Italy.
March 24, 2006.
Revisions in Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice Required by Observations from Outside the
Consulting Room. Invited address, University of Rome (La Sapienza), Rome, Italy, March 31,
2006.
The therapist's choice of language as an integrative intervention. Invited address, Association for
the Psychological Development of the Individual and the Community, Rome, Italy, April 1, 2006
Panelist, “Psychotherapy integration in treating problems with anger and aggression.” Annual
meeting of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Los Angles, May 5,
2006.
Discussant, panel on Symptom-focused dynamic psychotherapy. Annual meeting of the Society
for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Los Angeles, May 6, 2006.
New Directions in Relational Theory and Practice. Cape Cod Institute, Wellfleet, MA. July 3-7,
2006.
The psychoanalytic taboo: Integrating cognitive-behavioral techniques into psychoanalysis.
Invited address, The Psychoanalytic Society of the Postdoctoral Program, New York, November
11, 2006.
In praise of depth. Networker Symposium: Psychotherapy in a Culture of Distraction,
Washington, DC. March 16, 2007.
Discussant, Panel on Integrative and Unifying Visions in Psychology. Conference on Visions of
Integration: Implications for Self and Society, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA,
April 20, 2007.
The architecture of the human mind. Invited address, Conference on Visions of Integration:
Implications for Self and Society, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, April 21, 2007.
Relational psychoanalysis and psychotherapy integration. Annual meeting of the Society for the
Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Lisbon, Portugal, July 7, 2007.
Psychotherapy integration: An intellectual autobiography. Auditorio Jorge Luis Borges,
Biblioteca Nacional de Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 7, 2007.
The Poverty of Affluence revisited: Applications to developing nations and contemporary
economic circumstances. Invited address, Thirtieth Anniversary Celebration, Fundacion AIGLE,
Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 8, 2007.
Integrating psychoanalysis and cognitive-behavioral therapy. Invited address, New York State
Psychological Association, October 28, 2007.
New directions in relational theory and practice. New York University postdoctoral program in
psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, relational track. November 11, 2007.
Knowing Oneself from the Inside Out, Knowing Oneself from the Outside In: Complementarity
and Reciprocity in Understanding Oneself and Others. Annual meeting of Division 39,
American Psychological Association, New York, April 12, 2008.
The importance of context in psychotherapy integration: Race, class, family, and the context of
daily life. Annual meeting of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration,
Boston, May 2, 2008.
One-person attachment theory, two-person attachment theory, and crucial choice points in
relational theorizing. Annual meeting of the International Association for Relational
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Baltimore, May 31, 2008.
Relational theory and practice. All-day workshops, R. Cassidy Seminars
Boston, June 6, 2008
Washington, June 13, 2008
Philadelphia June 27, 2008
Taking the best from the multiple approaches to psychotherapy: Relational psychoanalysis as a
foundation for an integrative approach. Invited address, Bogazici (Bosphorus) University,
Istanbul, Turkey, October 9, 2008.
Affect, attachment, behavior, cognition. All-day workshops, R. Cassidy Seminars
Los Angeles, January 9, 2009
San Francisco, January 10, 2009
Sacramento, January 13, 2009
Seattle, January 14, 2009
Berkeley, January 16, 2009
Pasadena, January 17, 2009
Integrative relational psychotherapy: Issues of theory and practice. Invited address, Teachers
College, Columbia University, February 18, 2009.
Panelist, Stretching the frame: An analyst looks at DBT. Conference on Relational
Psychoanalysis Comes of Age, New York, NY, March 7, 2009.
Relational psychoanalysis meets the larger world of contemporary therapeutic practice. Invited
workshop, Contemporary Center for Advanced Psychoanalytic Studies at Fairleigh Dickinson
University and the Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy of New Jersey, March 14,
2009.
Affect, attachment, and acceptance in psychotherapy. Invited address, School of Comparative
Psychotherapy, Florence Italy, April 17, 2009.
Integrating new developments in relational psychoanalysis, cognitive-behavior therapy, and other
therapeutic approaches. Invited workshop, School of Comparative Psychotherapy, Florence
Italy, April 18, 2009.
Therapeutic Action: neuropsychoanalysis, self psychology, and relational psychoanalysis.
Panelist, 20 th Anniversary Conference, National Institute for the Psychotherapies, New York,
May 2, 2009.
Psychotherapy: From artificial dichotomies to fertile convergence. Invited address, Laboratory
for the Study of Human Relations, Athens, Greece. May 22, 2009.
Bridging systemic and integrative psychodynamic therapy. Invited workshop, Laboratory for the
Study of Human Relations, Athens, Greece. May 23, 2009.
Relationality and contemporary psychoanalysis. Plenary panelist, American Psychological
Association, Toronto Ontario, August 8, 2009.
Clinical Implications of the Relational Point of View. Invited address, Institute of Psychology,
University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden, August 31. 2009.
The differences between one-person and two-person perspectives in theory and practice. Invited
workshop, Institute of Psychology, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden, September
1,2009.
Attachment, integration, and relationality. Invited address, Stockholm Academy for
Psychotherapy Education, Stockholm, Sweden, September 2, 2009.
Advances and differentiations in relational theory and practice. Invited all-day workshop,
Stockholm Academy for Psychotherapy Education, Stockholm, Sweden, September 3, 2009.
Psychotherapy as art and science. Invited two-day workshop, Wisconsin Psychological
Association, September 25-26, 2009.
Deconstructing the session. New York University postdoctoral program in psychoanalysis and
psychotherapy. February 19, 2010.
Relational psychoanalysis and cognitive behavior therapy: Promoting a more integrative,
systemic, and experiential therapeutic approach. Invited workshop, National Taiwan University,
Taipei, Taiwan, March 26, 2010.
Psychodynamic therapy, cognitive behavior therapy, and the ideological biases of the
“empirically supported treatments” movement: Expanding our understanding of evidence-based
practice. Invited keynote address, Taiwan Association of Clinical Psychology, Taipei, Taiwan,
March 27, 2010.
What we say matters: When therapists' comments can be unwittingly hurtful and how therapists'
comments can more effectively promote change. Invited workshop, National Chengchi
University, Taipei, Taiwan, March 27, 2010.
What do we mean by a science of the mind? (with Tullio Carere-Comes), Opening plenary,
Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Florence, Italy May 28, 2010
Psychodynamic and experiential perspectives I: Convergences and divergences (with Leslie
Greenberg). Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Florence, Italy May 29,
2010.
Psychodynamic and experiential perspectives II: Differing perspectives in the interpretation of a
videotape (with Leslie Greenberg). Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration,
Florence, Italy May 29, 2010.
Keynote address: Psychotherapy Integration and Evidence-Based Practice: Confusions in
Theory, Practice, and Research. Polish Association of Psychotherapy Integration and European
Association for Integrative Psychotherapy, Warsaw, Poland, September 17, 2010.
A Relational Perspective on Psychotherapy Integration: Implications for Practice. Invited
workshop, Polish Association of Psychotherapy Integration and European Association for
Integrative Psychotherapy, Warsaw, Poland, September 17, 2010.
The practice of integrative relational psychotherapy: Theory and video demonstration. Invited
address and workshop, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities. Warsaw, Poland,
September 18, 2010
Integrating Depth and Context: The Integrative Relational Model. Invited address, Department of
Psychiatry, University of Toronto and Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, September 29, 2010.
Reconciling Clinical Reality and the Need for Evidence: An Integrative, Principles-based
Integration of Psychodynamic and Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches. Invited address,
Tennessee Psychological Association. October 30, 2010.
Acceptance, Attachment, Anxiety: A Video Demonstration of an Acceptance-Centered Approach
to Integrating Psychodynamic and Cognitive Behavioral Practice. Invited workshop, Tennessee
Psychological Association. October 30, 2010.
Discussant, panel on The unconscious will: What Cognitive Science tells us about how the
pursuit of goals operates outside of awareness. Annual meeting of the American Psychoanalytic
Association, New York, January 14, 2011
An Attachment and Acceptance Focused Approach to Integrative Therapeutic Practice:The
Cyclical Psychodynamic Model. Invited workshop, Ontario Psychological Association, Toronto,
Ontario. Feb 25, 2011.
Toward a more comprehensive and integrative psychotherapy: Beyond the culture wars between
psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral therapists. Invited workshop, Los Angeles County
Psychological Association, March 12, 2011.
The integration of psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral therapies: Prospects and pitfalls.
Annual meeting of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association,
New York, April 14, 2011.
Discussant, A Psychotherapy for the People: Freud, Ferenczi, and psychoanalytic work with the
underprivileged. Sandor Ferenczi Center at the New School for Social Rsearch, New York, April
29, 2011.
Discussant, panel on “Is research relevant to clinical work and psychotherapy integration?
Lessons learned by leading clinical researchers” Annual meeting, Society for the Exploration of
Psychotherapy Integration, Washington, DC, May 20, 2011.
Moderater, panel on “Working from the Outside In: Integrating principles, tactics, and techniques
from outside one’s home orientation.” Annual meeting, Society for the Exploration of
Psychotherapy Integration, Washington, DC, May 20, 2011.
Paper: The larger context of the EST Movement. Annual meeting, Society for the Exploration of
Psychotherapy Integration, Washington, DC, May 21, 2011.
Panelist, Three Approaches to psychotherapy. What can be integrated in an integrative approach?
Part I. Annual meeting, Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Washington,
DC, May 21, 2011.
Panelist, Three Approaches to psychotherapy. What can be integrated in an integrative approach?
Part II . Annual meeting, Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Washington,
DC, May 22, 2011.
On enactment. Panel with A. Bass, F. Godet, G. Katz, J. Slochower. Fiftieth Anniversary
Conference, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy,
January 21, 2012.
Patient-Sensitive Therapeutic Communication and Evidence-Based Practice: Alternatives or
Allies? Grand Rounds, Yale University Dept of Psychiatry, February 10, 2012.
The relationality of everyday life. Tenth anniversary meeting, International Association for
Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. New York: March 3, 2012.
A Supervision Symphony in Four Movements (with Janet Brown Lobel, Ken Corbett, and Avgi
Saketopoulou. Relational Track of New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy
and Psychoanalysis, March 18, 2012.
Reflections on a difficult case of couples therapy. Invited seminar, Institute for Psychotherapy
Integration, Tokyo, Japan, March 30, 2012
Integrative Relational Psychotherapy: Combining Depth and Active Intervention. Invited
workshop, Japanese Society for Clinical Psychology, Osaka, Japan, March 24, 2012; Tokyo,
Japan, March 31, 2012
Featured discussant, Enriching Psychoanalysis: Integrating Psychoanalysis and New Therapeutic
Approaches. National conference sponsored by the National Institute for the Psychotherapies.
May 12, 2012, New York
Through the eyes of the other: How therapists of each major orientation view the others, and
what that implies for the possibilities of integration. Annual meeting, Society for the Exploration
of Psychotherapy Integration, Evanston, IL, May 18, 2012
Moderator and discussant, panel on Validation as an integrating concept across treatment
modalities. Annual meeting, Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Evanston,
IL, May 19, 2012
Keynote speaker: Integrative psychotherapy or psychotherapy integration: Perspectives and
dilemmas. International Conference on Integrative Psychotherapy: Prospects and Pitfalls. BarIlan University, Tel Aviv, Israel, June 11, 2012.
Interview of Paul Wachtel by Carlos Strenger. International Conference on Integrative
Psychotherapy: Prospects and Pitfalls. Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel, June 11, 2012.
Invited case presentation: An example of integration. International Conference on Integrative
Psychotherapy: Prospects and Pitfalls. Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel, June 11, 2012.
Discussion of a case of trichotillomania: Analyzing the case presentation within the framework
of
psychotherapy integration. International Conference on Integrative Psychotherapy: Prospects
and Pitfalls. Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel, June 12, 2012.
Discussant, “Therapeutic Integration Using Schema Therapy.” International Conference on
Integrative Psychotherapy: Prospects and Pitfalls. Ben Gurion University of the Negev,
Beersheva, Israel, June 13, 2012.
Discussant, “An integrative model for the treatment of selective mutism.” International
Conference on Integrative Psychotherapy: Prospects and Pitfalls. Ben Gurion University of the
Negev, Beersheva, Israel, June 13, 2012.
Integrative relational psychotherapy. Invited all-day workshop, The Psychotherapy Institute,
Bayramoglu, Turkey, June 16, 2012
Key developments and issues for integrative practice. Invited all-day workshop, The
Psychotherapy Institute, Bayramoglu, Turkey, June 17, 2012
Psychoanalysis and the Moebius strip: Where depth meets context. The 2013 Division 39
Scientific Award paper. 33 rd Annual Spring Meeting, Division of Psychoanalysis, American
Psychological Association, Boston, MA, April 25, 2013
Panelist, “Therapeutic passion in the countertransference,” online colloquium, International
Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, May 6-19, 2013
Psychotherapy integration and therapeutic communication: How do we actually implement the
Integrative intent? Keynote address, annual meeting of the Society for the Exploration of
Psychotherapy Integration, Barcelona, Spain, June 8, 2013.
Discussant, panel on "Language Inequity: Class, ESTs, and Psychotherapy." Annual meeting,
Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Barcelona, Spain, June 8, 2013.
Discussant, "Integrative Coping with a Symptom: The Case of Trichotillomania." Annual
meeting, Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Barcelona, Spain, June 9,
2013.
Active, Constructive, Reflective, Relational: Foundations of Therapeutic Progress. Paper
delivered in closing plenary panel, Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration,
Barcelona, Spain, June 9, 2013.
The Evolution of the Cyclical Psychodynamic Model and Its Implications for Theory and
Practice . Institute of Psychology, invited address, University of Oslo; Oslo, Norway, June 13,
2013
Psychotherapy integration and integrative relational psychotherapy. Paper presented at
conference on “The client as the guide in psychotherapy,” Norwegian Academy of Sciences,
Oslo, Norway, June 14, 2013
Therapeutic Communication: Recent developments. Invited all-day invited workshop, State
University of New York, Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, NY, September 27, 2013
Race relations: Vicious circles, virtuous circles, and the path toward resolution. Invited address,
William Jefferson Clinton School of Public Service, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR,
October 10, 2013
Ethnicity, Theoretical Orientation, Scientist or Practitioner: Transcending Our Divisions and
Incorporating Our Separate Strengths and Contributions Invited workshop, Arkansas
Psychological Association, Little Rock, AR, October 11, 2013
Plenary address: Acceptance Begets Change: An ABC for Deep and Lasting Therapeutic Change
American Academy of Psychotherapists, Philadelphia, October 26, 2013
Invited Workshop: Affect, Attachment, Behavior, Cognition: Transcending the Gap between
Depth and Active Intervention. American Academy of Psychotherapists, Philadelphia, October
26, 2013
Relational Psychoanalysis as a Foundation for Integrative Practice. Stephen Mitchell Center for
Relational Studies, New York, November 6, 2013.
Synergistic Convergences: Combining Psychoanalytic, Cognitive-Behavioral, Systemic, and
Experiential Perspectives in a Coherent Clinical and Theoretical Model. Invited all-day
workshop, Michigan Psychoanalytic Council, November 9, 2013
Therapeutic communication and therapeutic integration. New York chapter, Society for the
Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, November 16, 2013
The Rhetoric of “Evidence-Based Practice”. Mount Sinai Hospital, Department of Psychiatry,
December 10, 2013.
An integrative relational point of view. National Institute for the Psychotherapies, February 22,
2014.
Currently scheduled:
Beyond the therapeutic culture wars: Finding commonalities in diverse therapeutic perspectives
and combining their strengths in effective therapeutic communications. Center for Professional
Psychology, George Washington University, April 4, 2014.
Complementary pathways to therapeutic change: Interpretation, exposure, new relational
experience, and the promotion of new patterns of living in the world. Adam Corneel Major
Teachers of Psychotherapy Presentation. McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, April 9, 2014.
Choice points in the evolution of psychoanalytic theory and practice. Adam Corneel Lecture,
Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Boston, MA, April 10, 2014.
Discussant, panel on "Cultural Dimensions in Psychotherapy Integration," Annual meeting of
the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Montreal, Canada, April 12, 2014
Plenary panelist, The SEPI pioneers: Recalling the past and reflecting on the future of
psychotherapy integration. Annual meeting of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy
Integration, Montreal, Canada, April 13, 2014
Affect, attachment, behavior, cognition: An integrative relational approach to comprehensive
therapeutic change. Two-day workshop, Centre for Social Work Research and Professional
Development, University of Calgary and Calgary Zone Professional Practice Council of Social
Work, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 13-14, 2014.