Psychodynamic Formulation

About the Author

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.