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Publications List

Available from the SFPRG office:
How Psychotherapy Works, Joe Weiss. Guilford Press, 1993. $40 and

The Psychoanalytic Process, Joe Weiss, Harold Sampson and the Mount Zion Psychotherapy Research Group. Guilford Press, 1986. $50 plus postage & handling.

Transformative Relationships The Control Mastery Theory of Psychotherapy, George Silberschatz, Editor.
See www.transformativerelationships.com for more info.

This book is available at the 9 Funston Ave., The Presidio, SFPRG office, or it can be mailed to you.
$35 for members; $35 plus postage for non-members. (add $3 if paying by Visa/MC) Contact Rob at sfprg@sfprg.org.

Also available:
Imaginary Crimes - Why We Punish Ourselves and How to Stop, by Lewis Engel and Tom Ferguson $23.

Why You Behave In Ways You Hate, by Irwin Gootnick $20.

Arousal - the Secret Logic of Sexual Fantasies, by Michael Bader $15. - paperback

Imperfect Harmony - How to Stay Married for the Sake of Your Children and Still Be Happy, by Joshua Coleman - $24

The Lazy Husband - How to Get Men To Do More Parenting and Housework, by Joshua Coleman -$23

add $5.00 for p&h and $3 if paying by Visa/MC. Contact Rob at sfprg@sfprg.org

For archived issues of old SFPRG newsletters "Process Notes" click here.

Also check Vic Comello's site: http://controlmastery.org for publications and pdf files on Control Mastery Theory.

  • Albani, C., Blaser, G., Koerner, A., Volkart, R., Geyer, M. & Braehler, E. Interpersonelle Schuldgefuehle im Vergleich zwischen einer Bevoelkerungsstichprobe, Medizinstudenten und Psychotherapiepatienten. Zeitschrift fuer Medizinische Psychologie, 2004, 13, 13 - 19. (Interpersonal feelings of guilt in medical students compared with samples from the German population and psychotherapy patients; in German).
  • Albani, C., Volkart, R., Humbel, J., Blaser, G., Geyer, M. & Kaechele, H. Die Methode der Plan-Formulierung: Erste deutschsprachige Reliabilitatsstudie zur "Control Mastery Theory" von Joseph Weiss. Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik, Medizinische Psychologie, 2000, 50, 470-471. (The Plan-Formulation Method: first german-language reliability study based on the "Control Mastery Theory" by Joseph Weiss; in German).
  • Albani, C., Blaser, G., Koerner, A., Geyer, M., Volkart, R., O'Connor, L., Berry, J. & Braehler, E. Der "Fragebogen zu interpersonellen Schuldgefuehlen" (FIS). Anwendung in einer repraesentativen Bevoelkerungsstichprobe und bei PsychotherapiepatientInnen. Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik, Medizinische Psychologie, 2002, 52, 189-197.(The German short version of the Interpersonal Guilt Questionnaire - validation in a population-based sample and clinical application; in German).
  • Albani, C., Blaser, G., Koerner, A., Geyer, M., Volkart, R., O'Connor, L., Berry, J. & Braehler, E. Der Fragebogen zu interpersonellen Schuldgefuehlen (FIS) - Normierung an einer repraesentativen Stichprobe. Zeitschrift fuer Klinische Psychologie, Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, 2003, 51 (2), 137-143.
    (The German short version of the Interpersonal Guilt Questionnaire - results of a representative sample of the German population; in German).
  • Bader, M.J. Helping the Patient Get Better: Psychoanalysis, Optimism, and Social Change. Tikkun, 1994, 9(3), 11-14.
  • Bader, M.J. Shame and the Resistance to Jewish Renewal. Tikkun, 1994, 9(6), 23-26, 89-91.
  • Bader, M.J. Authenticity and the Pyschology of Choice in the Analyst. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 1995, Vol. LXIV, P. 282-305.
  • Bader, M.J. Cultural Norms and the Patient's Experience of the Analyst's Business Practices. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, vol. 66, no. 1, 1997.
  • Bader, M.J. Altruistic Love in Psychoanalysis: Opportunities and Resistance. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, vol. 6, no. 6, 1996.
  • Bader, M.J. Authenticity and Role-Playing in Control-Mastery Theory. Process Notes, vol. 2, no. 2, 1995.
  • Bader, M.J. The Tendency to Neglect Therapeutic Aims in Psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, vol. 63, no. 2, 1994.
  • Bader, M.J. Adaptive Sadomasochism and Psychological Growth. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, vol. 3, no. 2, 1993.
  • Bader, M.J. The Analyst's Use of Humor," Psychoanalytic Quarterly, vol. 62, no. 1, 1993.
  • Bader, M.J. Narcissism and Family Structure: A Social-Historical Perspective. Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought, vol. 3, no. 3, 1980 (with Ilene Philipson.)
  • Brockmann, J., Sammet, I. Die Control Mastery Theory von J. Weiss - Theoretische Grundlagen und empirische Ergebnisse des psychoanalytischen Therapieprozesses - Anwendungen in der psychodynamischen Therapie. In: Gerlach A., Schlösser A. (Hrsg.): Psychoanalyse mit und ohne Couch - Haltung und Methode. Gießen: Verlag Psychosozial, 2003. [The Control Mastery Theory by J. Weiss - Theory and research of the psychoanalytic process - Application in psychodynamic therapy; In: Gerlach A., Schlösser A. (eds.): Psychoanalysis With Couch or Without - Attitude and Technique; in German]
  • Broitman, J. Insight, the mind's eye. An exploration of three patients' processes of becoming insightful. Doctoral Dissertation, Wright Institute, 1985. Dissertation Abstracts International, 46(8). University Microfilms No. 85-20425.
  • Brown, J. D., and Silberschatz, G. Dependency, self-criticism, and depressive attributional style. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1989, 98, 187-188.
  • Browne, D. Treatment of multiple personality disorder using Control-Mastery theory. Unpublished paper, 1993.
  • Bush, M. Reply to "Critique of a new view of unconscious guilt." Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 1989, 53(2), 129-134.
  • Bush, M. The role of unconscious guilt in psychopathology and psychotherapy. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 1989, 53(2), 97-107.
  • Coleman, J. The role of plan-compatible insight in the outcome of seven brief psychotherapies. Doctoral Dissertation, Wright Institute, 1989.
  • Conrad, B. Personality and psychopathology reconsidered: A quantitative/qualitative Control-Mastery psychobiography on Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Wright Institute, 1995.
  • Conrad, B. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: A Control-Mastery plan formulation, a quantitative psychobiography. Unpublished master's thesis, The Wright Institute, Berkeley, CA, 1992.
  • Curtis, J.T. CMT and the plan concept. California Psychologist, September, 1993, 14, 21, 23.
  • Curtis, J.T. The Control-Mastery theory of psychotherapy. California Psychologist, March 1991, p. 13.
  • Curtis, J.T. and Silberschatz, G. Plan formulation method. In T.D. Eells (Ed.), Handbook of Psychotherapy Case Formulation. New York: Guilford Press, in press, 1996.
  • Curtis, J., and Silberschatz, G. Clinical implications of research on brief psychodynamic psychotherapy I. Formulating the patient's problems and goals. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 1986, 3(1), 13-25.
  • Curtis, J., Silberschatz, G., Sampson, H., and Weiss J. The plan formulation method. Psychotherapy Research, 1994, 4, 197-207.
  • Curtis, J., Silberschatz, G., Sampson, H., Weiss, J., and Rosenberg, S. Developing reliable psychodynamic case formulations: An illustration of the plan diagnosis method. Psychotherapy, 1988, 25, 256-265.
  • Davilla, L. (Shields). (1992). The immediate effects of therapist's interpretations on patient's plan progressiveness. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, California School of Professional Psychology.
  • Dulay, J. L. Beliefs about harm to others and progress in psychotherapy. Master's Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 1987.
  • Edelstein, S. (1992.) Insight and psychotherapy outcome. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Wright Institute Graduate School of Psychology.
  • Engel, L. "Survivor Guilt and Writer's Block" in Complex Applications of EMDR: A Casebook. P. Manfield, ed. 1997, in press.
  • Engel, L. and Ferguson, T. Crimes Imaginarios: Porque nos punimos e como interromper esse processo. Livraria Nobel, S.A., 1992.
  • Engel, L. and Ferguson, T. Schuldgefchle. Kruez Verlag, Zurich, 1992.
  • Engel L. and Ferguson, T. Nos crimes imaginaires. Le Jour/Sogides, Montreal, 1991.
  • Engel, L. and Ferguson, T. Imaginary Crimes: Why You Punish Yourself and How to Stop. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1990.
  • Engel, L. and Ferguson, T. Hidden Guilt. 1991. (paperback version of Imaginary Crimes)
  • Folsom, H. Family therapy. Unpublished paper, 1993.
  • Foreman, S.A. Child Therapy: The Contribution of Control Mastery Theory.
  • Foreman, S.A. The significance of turning passive into active in Control Mastery theory. The Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research, 5:106-121, 1996.
  • Foreman, S.A. The difficult couple. In Hilda Kessler (Ed.), Treating Couples, Jossey-Bass: San Francisco, 165-188, 1996.
  • Foreman, S.A. The theory, research and clinical application of the work of the San Francisco Psychotherapy Research Group. In B. Boothe, R. Hirsig, A. Hilminger, B. Meier & R. Volkart (Eds.), Perception, Evaluation, Interpretation. Swiss monographs in Psychology, Vol. 3. Lewiston, NY: Hogrefe & Huber, 1994.
  • Foreman, S.A. Control Mastery Theory and Child Psychotherapy. California Psychologist, 26(4):14-23, September, 1993.
  • Foreman, S.A. and Berry, J. Progressiveness scale for children. Submitted, 1995.
  • Foreman, S.A., Gibbins, J.D. & Berry, J. Assessing the efficacy of therapist interventions in child psychotherapy. Submitted, 1995.
  • Foreman, S. and Marmar, C. Therapist actions which address initially poor therapeutic alliances in psychotherapy. American Journal of Psychiatry, 1985, 148(8), 922-926.
  • Fretter, P. A Control-Mastery case formulation of a successful treatment for major depression. In Session: Psychotherapy in Practice, 1995, 1(2):3-17.
  • Fretter, P. The immediate effects of transference interpretations on patients' progress in brief, psychodynamic psychotherapy. Doctoral Dissertation, University of San Francisco, 1984. Dissertation Abstracts International, 46(6). University Microfilms No. 85-12112.
  • Fretter P., Bucci, W., Broitman, J., Silberschatz, G., & Curtis, J. How the patient's plan relates to the concept of transference. Psychotherapy Research, 1994, 4(1), 58-72.
  • Friedman, M. Survivor guilt in the pathogenesis of anorexia nervosa. Psychiatry, February 1985, 48, 25-39.
  • Friedman, M. Toward a reconceptualization of guilt. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, October 1985, 21(4), 501-547.
  • Gassner, S. The implications of "control-mastery theory" for supervision. Current Issues in Psychoanalytic Practice: Monographs of the Society of Psychoanalytic Training, pp. 138-140. New York: Brunner/Mazel, Inc., 1990.
  • Gassner, S. and Bush, M. A description and clinical research application of the control-mastery theory. Clinical Social Work Journal, Fall 1988, 16(3), 231-242.
  • Gassner, S., Sampson, H., Weiss, J., and Brumer, S. The emergence of warded-off contents. Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought, 1982, 5(1), 55-75.
  • Grienenberger, J.F. and Foreman, S.A. The effect of therapist interventions on the therapeutic alliance in child psychotherapy. Submitted for publication, 1996.
  • Goldberg, Helene. Psychotherapy in a New Light. Berkeley Insider, January/February 1996, 22-23.
  • Goldberg, Helene. The Patient's Use of Metaphor in Psychotherapy. Dissertation. 1993.
  • Gootnick, I. The problem of treating an intensely suffering patient: To gratify or frustrate. Psychoanalytic Review, Winter 1982-1983, 69(4), 487-496.
  • Graf, T. Effects of therapist interventions in the context of child testing of pathogenic beliefs during child psychotherapy. Doctoral dissertation, The Wright Institute, 1995. Dissertation Abstracts International, 57 (1). Section B, page 0696. University Microfilms No.AAI 9615427.
  • Grebel, J. Manifestations of insight in brief psychotherapy. Doctoral Dissertation, Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, 1992.
  • Haas, S. B. Emotional change in psychotherapy: Are interpretations more effective when in the context of patients testing pathogenic beliefs? Doctoral dissertation, The Wright Institute, Berkeley, 1994.
  • Hamer, F. M. The therapeutic alliance and the process of psychotherapy. Doctoral Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1987.
  • Horowitz, L. M., Inouye, D., and Siegelman, E. Y. On averaging judges' ratings to increase their correlation with an external criterion. J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol., 1979, 47(3), 453-458.
  • Horowitz, L. M., Sampson, H., Siegelman, E. Y., Weiss, J., and Goodfriend, S. Cohesive and dispersal behaviors: Two classes of concomitant change in psychotherapy. J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol., 1978, 46, 556-564.
  • Horowitz, L. M., Sampson, H., Siegelman, E. Y., Wolfson, A. W., and Weiss, J. On the identification of warded-off mental contents. J. Abnormal Psychology, 1975, 84, 545-558.
  • Kale, C. The therapist's effect on patient progress in brief psychodynamic psychotherapy, Doctoral dissertation, Pacific Graduate School, 1986. Dissertation Abstracts International, 47(9). University Microfilms No. 86- 23649.
  • Kanofsky, S. & Lieb, R. (2007). Control Mastery Theory and Family Therapy. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 44(3), 316-332
  • Kelly, T. Do therapist's interventions matter? Doctoral Dissertation, New York University, 1989.
  • Lieb, R. J. & Kanofsky, S. (2003). Toward a constructivist control mastery theory: An integration with narrative therapy. Psychotherapy, Vol 40, Number 3, 187-202.
  • Lieb, R. J. & Young, Neil P. (1994). A Case-Specific Approach to the Treatment of Alchoholism: The Application of Control Mastery Theory to Alchoholics Anonymous and Professional Practice.. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, Vol 11, No. 1, pp. 35-44.
  • Linsner, J. P. Therapeutically effective and ineffective insight: The immediate effects of therapist behavior on a patient's insight during short-term dynamic therapy. Doctoral Dissertation, The City University of New York, 1987.
  • Luborsky, L., Barber, J.P., Binder, J., Curtis, J.T., Dahl, H., Horowitz, L., Horowitz, M. Perry, J.C., Schact, T., Silberschatz, G. & Teller, V. Transference-related measures: A new class based on psychotherapy sessions. In N.E. Miller, L. Luborsky, J.P. Barber & J.P. Docherty (Eds)., Psychodynamic Treatment Research: A Handbook for Clinical Practice (pp. 326-341). New York: Basic Books, 1993.
  • Meehan, W., O'Connor, L.E., Berry, J.W., Weiss, J., Morrison, A., & Acampora, A. Guilt, shame, and depression in clients in recovery from addiction. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 1996 28, 125-134.
  • Meyers, T.E. The Immediate Effects of Accurate Interpretations on Patient Affects in Brief Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, The Professional School of Psychology, San Francisco, 1993.
  • Migone, P. Book review-essay: "J. Weiss, H. Sampson & the Mount Zion Psychotherapy Research Group, The Psychoanalytic Process: Theory, Clinical Observation, and Empirical Research, New York: Guilford Press, 1986; J. Weiss, "Unconscious mental functioning. Scientific American, 262, 3/March: 103-109; L. Engel & T. Ferguson, Imaginary Crimes: Why We Punish Ourselves and How to Stop, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990. Psichoterapia e scienze umane, 1993, XXVII, 2: 123-129.
  • Migone, P. Riflessioni cliniche sul lavoro del Psychotherapy Research Group di San Francisco guidato da Weiss & Sampson. Il Ruolo Therapeutico, 1993, 62: 55-58.
  • Modell, A., Weiss, J., and Sampson, H. Narcissism, Masochism, and the Sense of Guilt in Relation to the Therapeutic Process. Bulletin #6, June 1983. The Psychotherapy Research Group, Department of Psychiatry, Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center. (Based on presentations to the symposium of the same title held May 14 and 15, 1983 at Letterman General Hospital.)
  • Morrison, A., O'Connor, L., & Bremond, D. Changing psychology: Women and drug treatment. Presented at the National Council of Schools of Professional Psychology Meeting in Tucson, Arizona, January 30 - February 3, 1991. Proceedings of Meetings, APA.
  • Nathans, Shelley. Plan attainment: An individualized measure for assessing outcome in psychodynamic psychotherapy. Doctoral Dissertation, California School of Professional Psychology, Berkeley, 1988.
  • Nergaard, M. The effects of shame, guilt, and the negative reaction in brief dynamic psychotherapy. Doctoral Dissertation, Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, 1985. Dissertation Abstracts International, 46(7B). University Microfilms No. 85-18799.
  • Nergaard, M., and Silberschatz, G. The effects of shame, guilt, and the negative reaction in brief dynamic psychotherapy. Psychotherapy, 1989, 26, 330-337.
  • Nichols, N. Crisis intervention through early interpretation of unconscious guilt. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 1989, 53(2), 115-122.
  • Norville, R. Plan compatibility of interpretations and brief psychotherapy outcome. Doctoral Dissertation, Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, Palo Alto, CA, 1989. Dissertation Abstracts International, 50(12B):5888. University Microfilms Number 90-12770.
  • Norville, R., Sampson, H. & Weiss, J. (1996). Accurate Interpretations and Brief Psychotherapy Outcome. Psychotherapy Research, 6(1):16-29.
  • O'Connor, L.E.., Berry, J.W., Weiss, J., & Gilbert, P. Guilt, fear, submission, and empathy in depression. Journal of Affective Disorders, 2002, 71, 19-27.
  • O'Connor, L. Survivor guilt, submissive behavior, and evolutionary theory. ASCAP Newsletter, April 1997.
  • O'Connor, L. Control Mastery theory: Treating the addict. California Psychologist, 1993, 25(6), 24, 29-30.
  • O'Connor, L.E., Berry, J.W., Weiss, J., Schweitzer, D., & Sevier, M. Survior guilt, submissive behaviour and evolutionary theory: The down-side of winning in social comparison. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 2000, 73, 519-530.
  • O'Connor, L., Berry J., Morrison, A., Brown, S. The drug of choice phenomenon: Individual differences in drug users who preferred different drugs. International Journal of the Addictions, 1995, 30(5), 541-555.
  • O'Connor, L.E., Berry, J.W., Weiss, J., Bush, M.& Sampson, H. Interpersonal Guilt: The Development of a New Measure. Journal of Clinical Psychology. 1997. 53(1), 74-89.
  • O'Connor, L., Edelstein, S., Berry, J., & Weiss, J. The pattern of insight in brief psychotherapy: A series of pilot studies. Psychotherapy, Fall, 1994, 31(3), 533-544.
  • O'Connor, L, Berry, J., Inaba, D., Weiss, J., & Morrison, A. Shame, guilt and depression in men and women in recovery from addiction: An application of the test of self-conscious affect. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 1994, 11(6), 503-510.
  • O'Connor, L. and Weiss, J. Individual psychotherapy for addicted clients: An application of Control Mastery theory. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 1993, 25 (4), 283-291.
  • O'Connor, L., Berry J., Morrison, A., Brown, S. Retrospective reports of psychiatric symptoms before, during, and after drug use. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 1992, 24(1), 65-68.
  • O'Connor, L.E Pathogenic beliefs and guilt in human evolution: Implications for psychotherapy. Genes on the couch: Explorations in evolutionary psychology, In P. Gilbert & K. Bailey (Eds.), 2001 (276-303). London: Brunner-Routledge.
  • O'Connor, L., Berry, J. The drug-of-choice phenomenon: Why addicts begin using their preferred drug. The Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, Fall, 1990.
  • Perry, C., Luborsky, L., Silberschatz, G., and Popp, C. An examination of three methods of psychodynamic formulations based on the same videotaped interview. Psychiatry, 1989, 52, 302-322.
  • Persons, J. B., Curtis, J. T., and Silberschatz, G. Psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral formulations of a single case. Psychotherapy, Winter 1991, 28(4), 608-617.
  • Pole, N. and Bloomberg-Fretter, P. Using Control Mastery Therapy to Treat Major Depression and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, 2006, Clinical Case Studies, Vol. 5., No. 1, 53-70.
  • Rappoport, A. How psychotherapy works: The concepts of control-mastery theory. Bulletin of the American Academy of Clinical Psychology, 8(2), 10-14, Fall/Winter 2002
  • Rappoport, A. The Structure of Psychotherapy: Control-Mastery Theory's Diagnostic Plan Formulation. Psychotherapy, Spring 1996, 33(1), 1-10.
  • Rappoport, A. Freeing Oneself from Pathogenic Adaptations: A Contribution to Control-Mastery Theory. Psychotherapy Bulletin, Fall 1996, 31(4), 27-33.
  • Rappoport, A. Psychodynamic psychotherapy for agoraphobia. Unpublished paper. October, 1986.
  • Rappoport, A. The Patient's Search for Safety: The Organizing Principle in Psychotherapy. Psychotherapy, Fall 1997, 34(3), 250-261.
  • Rappoport, A. Co-Narcissism: How We Accommodate to Narcissistic Parents. The Therapist (in press).
  • Rosbrow, T. Review of Understanding Transference: The CCRT Method by Lester Luborsky and Paul Crits-Cristoph. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 1995, 12(4), 607-610.
  • Rosbrow, T. Significance of the unconscious plan for psychoanalytic theory. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 1993, 10(4), 515-532.
  • Rosbrow, T. Pathogenic beliefs, plans and tests in psychotherapy: Review of The Psychoanalytic Process. New Ideas in Psychology, 1990, 8(2), 265-267.
  • Rosbrow, T. From parallel process to developmental process: a developmental/plan formulation approach for supervision. Psychodynamic Supervision. Ed. M. Rock. New York: Jason Aronson, 1997. 213-238.
  • Rosenberg, S., Silberschatz, G., Curtis, J., Sampson, H., and Weiss, J. A method for establishing reliability of statements from psychodynamic case formulations. American Journal of Psychiatry, 1986, 143(11), 1454-1456.
  • Sampson, H. A Review of The Adaptive Design of the Human Psyche: Psychoanalysis, Evolutionalry Biology, and the Terapeutic Process by Malcolm O. Slavin and Daniel Kriegman, New York: Guilford, 1992, 336pp. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 1997, 14(1), 135-139.
  • Sampson, H. Treatment by attitudes. Process Notes (Publication of the San Francisco Psychotherapy Research Group, Fall 1994, 1(1):8-11.
  • Sampson, H. Repeating Pathological Relationships to Disconfirm Pathogenic Beliefs: Commentary on Steven Stern's "Needed Relationships." Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 1994, 4(3):357-61.
  • Sampson, H. A new psychoanalytic theory and its testing in formal research. Interface of Psychoanalysis and Psychology, J.W. Barron, M.N. Eagle, & D.L. Wolitzky (Eds.). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 1992, 586-604.
  • Sampson, H. Reply to Greenberg. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 1992, 2(4), 539-544.
  • Sampson, H. The role of "real" experience in psychopathology and treatment. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 1992, 2(4), 509-528.
  • Sampson, H. Experience and insight in the resolution of transferences. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 1991, 27(2), 200-207.
  • Sampson, H. The problem of adaptation to reality in psychoanalytic theory. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 1990, 26(4), 677-691.
  • Sampson, H. How the patient's sense of danger and safety influence the analytic process. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 1989, 7(1), 115-124.
  • Sampson, H. A critique of certain traditional concepts in the psychoanalytic theory of therapy. Bull. Menninger Clinic, May 1976, 40, 255-262.
  • Sampson, H., and Wallerstein, R. S. New research directions: Comment from a psychoanalytic perspective. In: Changing Frontiers in the Science of Psychotherapy. H. H. Strupp and E. Bergin (Eds.). New York and Chicago: Aldine-Atherton, 1972, 444-446.
  • Sampson, H., and Weiss, J. Research on the psychoanalytic process: An overview, 2. Bulletin #2, March 1977. The Psychotherapy Research Group, Department of Psychiatry, Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center.
  • Sampson, H., and Weiss, J. Testing hypotheses: The approach of the Mount Zion Psychotherapy Research Group. In: The Psychotherapeutic Process: A Research Handbook. L. Greenberg and W. Pinsof (Eds.). New York: Guilford Press, 1986.
  • Sampson, H. and Weiss, J. The Mt. Zion Psychotherapy Research Group: A personal perspective. The History of Psychotherapy: A Century of Change, 1992, 12(J), 432-436.
  • Sampson, H., Weiss, J., and Caston, J. Research on the psychoanalytic process: An overview 1. Bulletin #1, October 1976. The Psychotherapy Research Group, Department of Psychiatry, Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center. (Based on the presentation to The Opening Conference on Psychotherapy Research, 10/2/76, Langley Porter Institute, Psychotherapy Evaluation and Study Center.)
  • Sampson, H., Weiss, J., Mlodnosky, L., and Hause, E. Defense analysis and the emergence of warded-off mental contents: An empirical study. Archives of General Psychiatry, 1972, 26, 524-532.
  • Shilkret, C. (2002). The role of unconscious pathogenic beliefs in agoraphobia. Psychotherapy: Theory/ Research/ Practice/ Training, 39, 368-375.
  • Shilkret, Cynthia J. (2005). Some clinical applications of attachment theory in adult psychotherapy. Clinical Social Work Journal, Vol. 33, No. 1 55-68.
  • Shilkret, Cynthia J.. Endangered by interpretations: Treatment by attitude of the narcissistically vulnerable patient. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 2006, Vol 23, No. 1, 30-42.
  • Shilkret, R. The origins of pathogenic beliefs: Comments on the developmental aspects of Control-Mastery theory. Unpublished paper.
  • Shilkret, R. & Nigrosh, E. Assessing students' plans for college. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1997,Vol. 44, No.2: 222-231.
  • Shilkret, R. and Shilkret, C. How does psychotherapy work? Findings of the San Francisco Psychotherapy Research Group. Smith College Studies in Social Work, 1993, 64(1), 35-53.
  • Shilkret, R. and Vecchiotti, S. Parenting styles, guilt, and college adjustment. Poster presented at Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Washington, D.C. April 1997. Copies available from Robert Shilkret, Department of Psychology, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA 01075.
  • Silberschatz, G. Abuse and disabuse of the drug metaphor in Psychotherapy Research: Hold on to the baby as you throw out the bath. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1994, 62(5), 949-951.
  • Silberschatz, G. Psychology's contribution to the future of psychoanalysis: A scientific attitude. In M. Meisels & E. Shapiro (Eds.), The Clark Conference on Psychoanalytic Training: Tradition and Innovation in Psychoanalysis. N. J. Erlbaum, 1990.
  • Silberschatz, G. The art of psychoanalysis and the psychoanalysis of art. (book review) Contemporary Psychology, 1989, 34, 392-393.
  • Silberschatz, G., and Curtis, J. Research on the psychodynamic process in the treatment of older persons. In N.E. Miller (Ed.), Psychodynamic Research Perspectives on Development, Psychopathology, and Treatment in Later Life. New York: International Universities Press, in press.
  • Silberschatz, G. and Curtis, J. Measuring the therapist's impact on the patient's therapeutic progress. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1993, 61(3), 403-411.
  • Silberschatz, G. and Curtis, J. Time-limited, psychodynamic psychotherapy with older adults. In W. A. Myers (Ed.), New techniques in the psychotherapy of older patients. American Psychiatric Press, 1991.
  • Silberschatz, G., and Curtis, J. Clinical implications of research on brief dynamic psychotherapy. II. How the therapist helps or hinders therapeutic progress. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 1986, 3(1), 27-37.
  • Silberschatz, G., Curtis, J., Fretter, P., and Kelly, T. Testing hypotheses of psychotherapeutic change processes. In H. Dahl, H. Kachele, & H. Thoma (Eds.), Psychoanalytic Process Research Strategies. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1988.
  • Silberschatz, G., Curtis, J., and Nathans, S. Using the patient's plan to assess progress in psychotherapy. Psychotherapy, 1989, 26, 40-46.
  • Silberschatz, G., Curtis, J., Sampson, H., and Weiss, J. Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center: Research on the process of change in psychotherapy. In L. Beutler & M. Crago (Eds.), Psychotherapy Research: An International Review of Programmatic Studies. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 1991, 56-64.
  • Silberschatz, G., Curtis, J., Sampson, H., & Weiss, J. La ricerca sul processo di cambiamento in psicoterapia: l'approccio del Gruppo di Ricerco in Psicoterapia di San Francisco. In A. Zabonati, P. Migone, G. Maschietto (Eds.), La validazione scientifica delle psicotherapie psicoanalitiche. Mestre/Venezia: IPAR, 1994, pp. 61-78 (Proceedings of the Meeting "The Scientific Validation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies". Venice, Italy, May 18-19, 1991.
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  • Weiss, J., Sampson, H., Modell, A. and The Mount Zion Psychotherapy Research Group. Narcissism, Masocihsm, and the sense of Guilt in Relation to the Therapeutic Process. Bulletin #6, June 1983 (Based on presentations tothe symposium on "Narcissism, Masochism, and the Sense of Guilt in Relation to the Therapeutic Process" held at Letterman General Hospital, May 14 and 15, 1983.)
  • Weiss, J., Sampson, H., and The Mount Zion Psychotherapy Research Group. A discussion of Joe Weiss's theory of the psychoanalytic process as presented in The Psychoanalytic Process: Theory, Clinical Observations, and Empirical Research. Bulletin #7, February 1986. (Based on presentations to the Fall workshops held at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute on October 29, November 12, and November 26, 1985.)
  • Weiss, Jules (reporter). Continuing research: The modification of defenses in psychoanalysis. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 1972, 20, 177-198.
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