Unifying Psychotherapy

Jeffrey J. Magnavita, PhD, ABPP, FAPA, is a licensed psychologist and marriage and family therapist in active clinical practice. A Diplomate in both counselling and clinical psychology of the ABBP and Fellow of the APA, he is the recipient of the Award for Distinguished Professional Contribution to Independent or Institutional Practice in the Private Sector for 2006 from APA for his work in unifying psychotherapy and personality systematics. Dr. Magnavita authored Restructuring Personality Disorders: A Short-Term Dynamic Approach; Relational Therapy for Personality Disorders, Personality-Guided Relational Psychotherapy: A Unified Approach; Theories of Personality: Contemporary Approaches to the Science of Personality; and was the volume editor for the Comprehensive Handbook of Psychotherapy: Psychodynamic/Object Relations: Volume I, Handbook of Personality Disorders: Theory and Practice, and Evidence-Based Treatment of Personality Disorders: Principles, Methods, and Processes. He is the Co-founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Unified Psychotherapy and Clinical Science. He served as the President of the Division of Psychotherapy in 2010 and has previously made a highly acclaimed DVD demonstrating his approach in a single session, as well as one on Psychotherapy Over Time (six sessions). Most recently he was the founder of the Unified Psychotherapy Project and has created a task force to map the current methods and techniques of psychotherapy. He is the creator and producer of a video series Psychotherapists Fact-to-Face, a production of the Division of Psychotherapy. Jack C. Anchin, PhD, is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology at SUNY at Buffalo, USA and a clinical psychologist engaged in the full-time private practice for over 25 years. Dr, Anchin is also Co-Editor of the Handbook of Interpersonal Psychotherapy and has published articles and chapters on the theory and practice of interpersonal psychotherapy. His publications also include invited commentaries on relational psychoanalysis, the unification of knowledge across the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities, and integrative research methodology in the scientific study of interpersonal psychotherapy. Dr. Anchin is an Associate Editor of the American Psychological Association (APA) Journal of Psychotherapy Integration and has served on the inaugural Advisory Council of APA's Clinician's Research Digest: Briefings in Behavioral Science, and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Integrative and Eclectic Psychotherapy and the APA journal Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training. With Dr. Jeffrey J. Magnavita, he is Co-Founder and Co-Editor of the electronic Journal of Unified Psychotherapy and Clinical Science. Dr. Anchin is an invited charter member of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration. He is a Fellow of the APA and is the 2011 recipient of the APA Division of Psychotherapy's Distinguished Psychologist Award for contributions to psychology and psychotherapy.