Psychodynamic Formulation

How do our patients come to be the way they are?

What forces shape their conscious and unconscious thoughts and feelings?

How can we use this information to best help them?

Constructing psychodynamic formulations is one of the best ways for mental health professionals to answer questions like these. It can help clinicians in all mental health setting understand their patients, set treatment goals, choose therapeutic strategies, construct meaningful interventions and conduct treatment.

Despite the centrality of psychodynamic formulation to our work with patients, few students are taught how to construct them in a clear systematic way. This book offers students and practitioners from all fields of mental health a clear, practical, operationalized method for constructing psychodynamic formulations, with an emphasis on the following steps:

DESCRIBING problems and patterns

REVIEWING the developmental history

LINKING problems and patterns to history using organizing ideas about development.

The unique, up-to-date perspective of this book integrates psychodynamic theories with ideas about the role of genetics, trauma, and early cognitive and emotional difficulties on development to help clinicians develop effective formulations.

Psychodynamic Formulation is written in the same clear, concise style of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Clinical Manual (Wiley 2011). It is reader friendly, full of useful examples, eminently practical, suitable for either classroom or individual use, and applicable for all mental health professionals. It can stand alone or be used as a companion volume to the Clinical Manual.

“"This informative, thoughtfully organized, Cleary written book addresses a central topic that is being ever more exiled into the shadows of psychiatric knowledge and practice." ( Journal of Clinical Psychiatry , 1 December 2014) "This is the best book I have read on psychodynamic formulation. Clearly written, with a warm, conversational style and numerous clinical examples, this book shows the reader how centrally important a psychodynamic formulation is to understanding the patient and guiding the treatment--not just in psychotherapy--but in all clinical settings. The authors systematically guide the reader in developing skills and building knowledge to construct a psychodynamic formulation and thinking deeply about patients. It is the most comprehensive and accessible learning guide on psychodynamic formulation to date!" ( Debra Katz , Vice Chair for Education at the University of Kentucky and Director of Psychiatry Residency Training, USA ) "This highly anticipated companion text to Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Clinical Manual provides a sophisticated yet easily understandable approach to developing psychodynamic formulations, one of the most challenging and important aspects of learning psychodynamic psychotherapy. Cabaniss and her coauthors understand how to present the complex world of psychodynamic psychotherapy and formulation in a way that beginning students can grasp and apply to their clinical work with patients. The system of developing formulations (Describe-Review-Link) provides focus, clarity and the flexibility to create meaningful ways of understanding our patients that will be of great benefit to both beginners and skilled clinicians. This book is a great advance in the way to approach developing the formulations that are the bedrock of well conceived treatment." ( David A. Goldberg , M.D California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, U SA)”

This informative, thoughtfully organized, Cleary writtenbook addresses a central topic that is being ever more exiled intothe shadows of psychiatric knowledge and practice. (Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 1 December 2014) "This is the best book I have read on psychodynamicformulation. Clearly written, with a warm, conversationalstyle and numerous clinical examples, this book shows the readerhow centrally important a psychodynamic formulation is tounderstanding the patient and guiding the treatment not justin psychotherapy but in all clinical settings. Theauthors systematically guide the reader in developing skills andbuilding knowledge to construct a psychodynamic formulation andthinking deeply about patients. It is the most comprehensiveand accessible learning guide on psychodynamic formulation todate!" (Debra Katz,Vice Chair for Education at theUniversity of Kentucky and Director of Psychiatry ResidencyTraining, USA) This highly anticipated companion text to PsychodynamicPsychotherapy: A Clinical Manual provides a sophisticated yeteasily understandable approach to developing psychodynamicformulations, one of the most challenging and important aspects oflearning psychodynamic psychotherapy. Cabaniss and hercoauthors understand how to present the complex world ofpsychodynamic psychotherapy and formulation in a way that beginningstudents can grasp and apply to their clinical work withpatients. The system of developing formulations(Describe-Review-Link) provides focus, clarity and the flexibilityto create meaningful ways of understanding our patients that willbe of great benefit to both beginners and skilled clinicians. This book is a great advance in the way to approach developing theformulations that are the bedrock of well conceivedtreatment. (David A. Goldberg, M.DCalifornia Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, USA)

Deborah L. Cabaniss, M.D. is Clinical Professor ofPsychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians andSurgeons and Director of Psychotherapy Training in the Departmentof Psychiatry at Columbia. She has won several teaching awards,including the Edith Sabshin award from the American PsychoanalyticAssociation. Dr Cabaniss is the lead author of PsychodynamicPsychotherapy: A Clinical Manual, has published numerousarticles related to psychoanalytic and psychiatric education andgives talks and workshops on these topics across the country. Sabrina Cherry, M.D. is Associate Clinical Professor ofPsychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians andSurgeons and practices psychiatry and psychoanalysis in New YorkCity. She has been an active teacher and supervisor of bothinterpersonal and psychodynamic psychotherapy in the ColumbiaResidency program for twenty years. She is now a Training andSupervising Analyst and an active teacher of psychoanalyticcandidates at Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training andResearch. Dr. Cherry is the recipient of awards from the AmericanPsychiatric Association and from Columbia for her contributions toeducation and research. Carolyn J. Douglas, M.D. is Associate Clinical Professorof Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians andSurgeons, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry atWeill Medical College of Cornell University. She served for manyyears as Director of the Residency Training Inpatient Unit atColumbia University Medical Center, and was co-Director of theColumbia Neuropsychiatric Service. Dr. Douglas has taughtand supervised residents in supportive dynamic psychotherapy formany years at Columbia and Payne Whitney/Cornell and has been therecipient of "Teacher of the Year" awards from residents at bothprograms. Dr. Douglas is the author of publications on teachingsupportive psychotherapy to psychiatric residents, thepsychotherapy selection process, and psychodynamicpsychotherapy. Ruth Graver, MD is Assistant Clinical Professor ofPsychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians andSurgeons. She is also Chair of the Curriculum Committee at theColumbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training andResearch. She has taught and supervised psychiatry residents, andpsychoanalytic candidates at Columbia for many years and haswritten about cross cultural issues in psychiatry as well as aboutpsychoanalytic writing. Anna R. Schwartz, M.D. is Assistant Clinical Professor ofPsychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians andSurgeons. She is also Director of the Psychodynamic PsychotherapyProgram at the Columbia University Center for PsychoanalyticTraining and Research. She has taught and supervised psychiatryResidents, and psychoanalytic candidates at Columbia for manyyears, and received the Irma Bland Teaching Award from the AmericanPsychiatric Association.

How do our patients come to be the way they are? What forces shape their conscious and unconscious thoughts and feelings? How can we use this information to best help them? Constructing psychodynamic formulations is one of the best ways for mental health professionals to answer questions like these. It can help clinicians in all mental health setting understand their patients, set treatment goals, choose therapeutic strategies, construct meaningful interventions and conduct treatment. Despite the centrality of psychodynamic formulation to our work with patients, few students are taught how to construct them in a clear systematic way. This book offers students and practitioners from all fields of mental health a clear, practical, operationalized method for constructing psychodynamic formulations, with an emphasis on the following steps: DESCRIBING problems and patterns REVIEWING the developmental history LINKING problems and patterns to history using organizing ideas about development. The unique, up-to-date perspective of this book integrates psychodynamic theories with ideas about the role of genetics, trauma, and early cognitive and emotional difficulties on development to help clinicians develop effective formulations. Psychodynamic Formulation is written in the same clear, concise style of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Clinical Manual (Wiley 2011). It is reader friendly, full of useful examples, eminently practical, suitable for either classroom or individual use, and applicable for all mental health professionals. It can stand alone or be used as a companion volume to the Clinical Manual.

How do our patients come to be the way they are? What forces shape their conscious and unconscious thoughts and feelings? How can we use this information to best help them?

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