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Georgetown University Professor and APsaA member Nancy Sherman’s new book The Untold War is reviewed by TIME Magazine. The book takes a psychoanalytic look at the profound impact that war has on the psyche of returning soldiers.

Read the entire review of her book.

Claudia M. Gold, a candidate with APsaA’s Berkshire Psychoanalytic Institute, uses her professional experience to convey her opinions on child and adolescent mental health diagnosis in the context of the American Psychiatric Association’s new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V). See more published opinions by Dr. Gold in our news section.

Read the article in the Boston Globe.

Psychodynamic psychotherapy works. This is the powerful conclusion of a study, "The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy," in the recent American Psychologist by noted clinician and researcher, Jonathan Shedler. Shedler meticulously evidences psychodynamic psychotherapy's robust effectiveness, including how the process sets in motion improvement that accrues long after therapy has ended.

Read the entire article in The Huffington Post.

Jonathan Shedler, Ph.D. recently released his much anticipated study on the efficacy of psychoanalytic therapy. The article discusses the extensive research literature demonstrating large and lasting benefits for psychoanalytic therapy, and establishes it as an evidence-based treatment. It also shows that unacknowledged psychoanalytic elements may account for treatment benefits in other forms of psychotherapy. Dr. Shedler’s study is published in the February/March issue of American Psychologist, the flagship journal of the American Psychological Association. Jonathan Shedler is an Honorary APsaA member, a leading contributor to the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, and in 2004 was the first recipient of the prestigious APsaA Scientific Paper Prize.

Read the official press release by the American Psychological Association.

Read the study by Dr. Shedler, which appears in the February/March issue of American Psychologist published by APA.