Bringing together important articles from Psychodynamic Psychiatry, this volume shows how contemporary practitioners are using a multidimensional biopsychosocial approach to increase the robustness of clinical research and the effectiveness of patient care. Chapters review cutting-edge approaches to formulating anxiety and mood disorders, eating disorders, traumatic grief, substance use and addictive behaviors, obsessive-compulsive disorder, personality disorders, schizophrenia, somatic symptom disorders, and trauma and stressor-related disorders.

César A. Alfonso, MD, Editor of Psychodynamic Psychiatry, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University in New York, Adjunct Professor at the University of Indonesia in Jakarta, and Visiting Professor at the National University of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur. He also teaches at New York Medical College and Northwell Health. He serves as Chair of the Psychotherapy Section of the World Psychiatric Association. His recent work includes the study of the psychodynamic determinants of treatment adherence, biopsychosocial and transcultural aspects of suicide, the clinical care of persons with low vision and medical multimorbidities, and the design and implementation of psychotherapy training programs.
Richard C. Friedman, MD, Editor-in-Chief of Psychodynamic Psychiatry, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, Lecturer in Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Faculty Member at the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. His book on male homosexuality was the first to integrate neuroscience, sexology, developmental psychology, and psychoanalytic theory and practice. He began a collaboration with Jennifer I. Downey in 1991 that led to many publications and a book on sexual orientation and psychoanalysis. Drs. Friedman and Downey served as Co-Chairs of the Human Sexuality Committee of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. Dr. Friedman is a recipient of the Mary S. Sigourney Award from the Sigourney Trust. He practices in New York City.
Jennifer I. Downey, MD, Editor of Psychodynamic Psychiatry, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians in New York. She is also on the faculty of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Dr. Downey was a sex researcher before becoming a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and, with Richard C. Friedman, wrote about sexual fantasy, sexual orientation, and sexual minorities. Her current interests include women's health, sexuality in people with psychiatric disorders, individuals with gender dysphoria and nonbinary gender identities, and teaching psychodynamic psychotherapy skills in psychiatric training programs.

- Foreword, Jennifer I. Downey
- Preface, César A. Alfonso
- Introduction, Richard C. Friedman
I. Psychodynamic Psychiatry--An Emerging Field
1. Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis: Two Different Models, Richard C. Friedman, César A. Alfonso, & Jennifer I. Downey
2. Contemporary Psychodynamic Psychiatry, Richard C. Friedman, Jennifer I. Downey, & César Alfonso
II. A Psychodynamic Approach to Complex Psychiatric Disorders
- Notes, César A. Alfonso
Anxiety Disorders
3. Unmentalized Aspects of Panic and Anxiety Disorders, Fredric N. Busch & Larry S. Sandberg
4. Behind the Mask: A Psychodynamic Exploration of the Experiences of Individuals Diagnosed with Social Anxiety Disorder, Beth McEvoy, John O'Connor, & Odhran McCarthy
Eating Disorders
5. Eating Disorders and Attachment: A Contemporary Psychodynamic Perspective, Giorgio A. Tasca & Louise Balfour
Grief
6. Grieving: The Role of Self-Reorganization, Mardi Horowitz
Internet and Social Networking Excessive Use
7. Psychodynamic Factors Behind Online Social Networking and Its Excessive Use,
Thomas Cheuk Wing Li
Mood Disorders
8. The Psychodynamic Psychotherapist's Guide to the Interaction among Sex, Genes, and Environmental Adversity in the Etiology of Depression for Women, Simone N. Vigod & Valerie H. Taylor
9. Is Increased Sexual Behavior a Symptom of Bipolar Disorder in Children and Adolescents?, Stewart Adelson, Robinette Bell, Adam Graff, David Goldenberg, Elizabeth Haase, Jennifer I. Downey, & Richard C. Friedman
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
10. An Integrative Approach to Treatment-Resistant Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Luke Sy-Cherng Woon, Anita Kanapathy, Hazli Zakaria, & César A. Alfonso
Personality Disorders
11. Moving Beyond Specialized Therapies for Borderline Personality Disorder: The Importance of Integrated Domain-Focused Treatment, W. John Livesley
12. Borderline Patients: 25 to 50 Years Later, with Commentary on Outcome Factors, Michael H. Stone
13. Pathological Narcissism and the Obstruction of Love, David Kealy & John S. Ogrodniczuk
Schizophrenia
14. Psychotherapy for Schizophrenia: A Review of Modalities and Their Evidence Base,
Michael Brus, Vladan Novakovic, & Ahron Friedberg
Somatic Symptom Disorders
15. A Psychodynamic Perspective on Treatment of Patients with Conversion and Other Somatoform Disorders, Marcia J. Kaplan
Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders
16. Further Evidence of Self-Medication: Personality Factors Influencing Drug Choice in Substance Use Disorders, Lindsey Colman McKernan, Michael R. Nash, William H. Gottdiener, Scott E. Anderson, Warren E. Lambert, & Erika R. Carr
Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorders
17. Psychodynamic Treatment of Combat Veterans with PTSD at Risk for Suicide, Herbert Hendin
18. The Cost of Chronic Stress in Childhood: Understanding and Applying the Concept of Allostatic Load, Debra A. Katz, Ginny Sprang, & Circe Cooke
III. Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Special Populations
- Notes, Richard Friedman & Jennifer Downey
19. Psychodynamic Therapies with Infants and Parents: A Critical Review of Treatment Methods, Björn Salomonsson
20. Childhood Precursors of Personality Disorders: Evaluation and Treatment, Clarice J. Kestenbaum
21. How Clinicians Feel about Working with Spouses of the Chronically Ill, Douglas H. Ingram
22. The Effects of Intimate Partner Violence on Women and Child Survivors: An Attachment Perspective, Alytia A. Levendosky, Brittany Lannert, & Matthew Yalch
23. Psychodynamic Treatment of the Criminal Offender: Making the Case for Longer-Term Treatment in a Longer-Term Setting, Abby L. Mulay, Elspeth Kelly, & Nicole M. Cain
24. Psychotherapeutic/Psychoanalytic Treatment of the Elderly, Joseph Schachter, Horst Kächele, & Judith S. Schachter
IV. Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Neuroscience
- Notes, César A. Alfonso
25. Freud's "Project": The Mind-Brain Connection Revisited, Myron L. Glucksman
26. The Neurobiology of Attachment: From Infancy to Clinical Outcomes, Joanna Chambers
27. The Role of Oxytocin and Vasopressin in Attachment, C. Sue Carter