Unifying Psychotherapy: Principles, Methods, and Evidence from Clinical Science
Jeffrey J. Magnavita, PhD, ABPP, FAPA, is a licensed psychologist and marriage and family therapist in active clinical practice. A diplomate in both counseling and clinical psychology of the American Board of Behavioral Psychology and fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), he is the recipient of the Award for Distinguished Professional Contribution to Independent or Institutional Practice in the Private Sector for 2006 from APA for his work in unifying psychotherapy and personality systematics. Dr. Magnavita authoredRestructuring Personality Disorders: A Short-Term Dynamic Approach; Relational Therapy for Personality Disorders, Personality-Guided Relational Psychotherapy: A Unified Approach; Theories of Personality: Contemporary Approaches to the Science of Personality;and was the volume editor for theComprehensive Handbook of Psychotherapy: Psychodynamic/ Object Relations: Volume I, Handbook of Personality Disorders: Theory and Practice, and Evidence- Based Treatment of Personality Disorders: Principles, Methods, and Processes. He recently authoredTheories of Personality, an undergraduate text. He is the co-founder and co-editorin- chief of theJournal of Unified Psychotherapy and Clinical Science.He served as the president of the Division of Psychotherapy in 2010 and has previously made a highly acclaimed DVD demonstrating his approach in a single session, as well as one onPsychotherapy Over Time(six sessions). Most recently he was the founder of the Unified Psychotherapy Project and has created a task force to map the current methods and techniques of psychotherapy calledpsychotherapedia .He is the creator and producer of a video seriesPsychotherapists Fact-to-Face, a production of the APA Division of Psychotherapy. He was recently appointed lecturer at Yale University in the Department of Psychiatry.Jack C. Anchin, PhD, FAPA, is adjunct professor of psychology at SUNY at Buffalo and a clinical psychologist engaged in full-time private practice for over 25 years. Dr. Anchin is also co-editor of the Handbook of Interpersonal Psychotherapy and has published articles and chapters on the theory and practice of interpersonal psychotherapy, as well as on psychotherapy integration and psychotherapy unification. His publications also include invited commentaries on relational psychoanalysis; the unification of knowledge across the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities; and integrative research methodology in the scientific study of interpersonal psychotherapy. Dr. Anchin has been an associate editor of the American Psychological Association (APA)Journal of Psychotherapy Integrationand is currently a member of the editorial board. He has also served on the inaugural advisory council of APA'sClinician's Research Digest: Briefings in Behavioral Science,and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Integrative and Eclectic Psychotherapyand the APA journalPsychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training.With Dr. Magnavita, he is co-founder and co-editor of the electronicJournal of Unified Psychotherapy and Clinical Science.Dr. Anchin is an invited charter member of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration. He is a Fellow of the APA and is the 2011 recipient of the APA Division of Psychotherapy's Distinguished Psychologist Award for contributions to psychology and psychotherapy.