Psychodynamic Formulation

Preface x
 
Acknowledgments xiv
 
PART ONE Introduction to the Psychodynamic Formulation 1
 
1 What Is a Psychodynamic Formulation? 3
 
2 How Do We Create a Psychodynamic Formulation? 10
 
3 How Do We Use Psychodynamic Formulations? 14
 
4 Psychodynamic Formulation and Bias 18
 
5 Who We Are Affects Our Formulations 23
 
PART TWO DESCRIBE 29
 
6 Self 35
 
7 Relationships 44
 
8 Adapting 53
 
9 Cognition 62
 
10 Values 76
 
11 Work and Play 84
 
Putting It Together--DESCRIBE Problems And Patterns 93
 
PART THREE REVIEW 97
 
12 What We're Born With 105
 
13 The Earliest Years 121
 
14 Middle Childhood 135
 
15 Later Childhood 143
 
16 Adolescence 149
 
17 Adulthood 155
 
Putting It Together--REVIEW a Life Story 161
 
PART FOUR LINK 165
 
18 Trauma 169
 
19 Early Cognitive and Emotional Difficulties 181
 
20 The Effects of Culture and Society 193
 
21 Conflict and Defense 205
 
22 Relationships with Others 214
 
23 The Development of the Self 225
 
24 Attachment 235
 
Putting It Together--LINK to Collaboratively
 
Create Psychodynamic Formulations 247
 
PART FIVE Psychodynamic Formulations in Clinical Practice 261
 
25 Psychodynamic Formulations in Acute Care Settings 263
 
26 Psychodynamic Formulations in Pharmacologic Treatment 273
 
27 Psychodynamic Formulations in Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy 282
 
28 Collaborative Formulations in Clinical Practice 291
 
End Note 298
 
Appendix A - An Educator's Guide to Using Psychodynamic Formulation: An Expanded Approach 299
 
Appendix B - DESCRIBE, REVIEW, LINK--An Outline 305
 
Recommended Reading 307
 
Index 316

The Psychodynamic Formulation Collective is a group of psychiatrists and psychoanalysts who came together following George Floyd's murder and nationwide protests against police brutality to address the historical neglect of sociocultural context in psychodynamic formulation, in particular the effect of social oppression.
 
Shirin Ali, an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. A graduate of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, she enjoys teaching and supervising psychiatry residents in psychodynamic psychotherapy. In her clinical practice, she focuses on mood and anxiety disorders, psychosis, culture and identity, and emerging adulthood.
 
Deborah L. Cabaniss, a professor of clinical psychiatry at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, associate director of the Adult Psychiatry Residency Program in the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry, and a training and supervising analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Her teaching and writing focus on psychotherapy education, and she practices psychiatry and psychoa-nalysis in New York City.
 
Sabrina Cherry, a clinical professor of psychiatry at Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. She is also an associate director and training and supervising analyst at the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research where she teaches candidates and conducts research on psychoanalytic career development. She practices psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in New York City.
 
Angela Coombs, an associate medical director at Alameda County Behavioral Health, where she focuses on increasing access to county mental health services and supports clients in East Oakland, California. Her scholarly work focuses on mental health inequities facing Black American populations and other minor-itized