This comprehensive guide to conducting and understanding psychodynamic research and incorporating findings into clinical practice sifts through state-of-the-art research to show how, why and if psychotherapy works. Contributors include practitioners in psychodynamic psychotherapy, such as Hans Strupp, Otto Kernberg, Donald Spence, Robert Wallerstein and Arnold Cooper.
Jacques P. Barber, Ph.D., ABPP is a professor of psychology and is the associate director of the Center for Psychotherapy Research in the department of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Foreign Adjunct Professor in the department of clinical neurosciences at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm Sweden. He is also a psychologist at MIRECC and CESATE of the Philadelphia VA Medical Center.
He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is past president of the society for psychotherapy research and was a recipient of its early career award in 1996. He has been conducting research on the outcome and process of dynamic and cognitive therapies for depression, substance dependence, panic disorder and personality disorders. He recently finished a NIMH-funded Randomized Clinical Trial of dynamic therapy vs. SSRI/SNRI for major depression. He is also the local PI of a two site NIMH funded RCT of dynamic therapy vs. CBT for panic disorder.
In terms of psychotherapy process research, he has examined the impact of the therapeutic alliance and of therapists' use of theoretically relevant interventions on the outcome of different therapies. Most important, he has focused his energies on models of change during therapy that emphasized both relational and technical factors. He has also conducted research on core conflicts and metacognitiion. He has published more than 150 papers, chapters and books in the field of psychotherapy and personality.
Together with Hadas Wiseman, they have co-authored a book titled "Echoes of the Trauma: Relationship Themes and Emotions in the Narratives of the Children of Holocaust Survivors" published by Cambridge. Together with Richard Summers, they have published "Dynamic Psychotherapy: A Guide to Evidence-Based Practice" at Guilford Press. Together with J. Chris Muran, they have published: The Therapeutic Alliance: An Evidence-Based Guide to Practice at Guilford Press.
