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Selected Publications on Control-Mastery Theory

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Bugas, J. & Silberschatz, G. How patients coach their therapists in psychotherapy. Psychotherapy, 2000, 37, 64-70.

Curtis J. T., & Silberschatz, G. Clinical implications of research on brief dynamic psychotherapy. I. Formulating the patient's problems and goals. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 1986, 3, 13-25.

Curtis, J. T. & Silberschatz, G. Plan formulation method. In T. D. Eells (Ed.), Handbook of psychotherapy case formulation (pp. 116 -136). New York: Guilford, 1997.

Curtis, J. T. & Silberschatz, G. Strukturierte psychodynamische Falkonzeptionen: Der Mt. Zion Ansatz. In F. Caspar (Ed.) Psychotherapeutische Problemanalyse (pp. 303-314). Tübingen: DGVT. 1996

Curtis, J. T., Silberschatz, G., Sampson, H. & Weiss, J. The Plan Formulation Method. Psychotherapy Research, 1994, 4, 197-207.

Curtis, J. T., Silberschatz, G., Sampson, H., Weiss, J., & Rosenberg, S. E. Developing reliable psychodynamic case formulations: An illustration of the plan diagnosis method. Psychotherapy, 1988, 25, 256-265.

Foreman, S.A. The difficult couple. In Hilda Kessler (Ed.), Treating Couples, Jossey-Bass: San Francisco, 165-188, 1996.

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.

Fretter, P. B., Bucci, W., Broitman, J., Silberschatz, G., & Curtis, J. T. How the patient's plan relates to the concept of transference. Psychotherapy Research, 1994, 4, 58-72.

Friedman, M. Toward a reconceptualization of guilt. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, October 1985, 21(4), 501-547.

Gassner, S., Sampson, H., Weiss, J., and Brumer, S. The emergence of warded-off contents. Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought, 1982, 5(1), 55-75.

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.

Luborsky, L., Barber, J. P., Binder, J., Curtis, J. T., Dahl, H. Horowitz, L. M., Horowitz, M., Perry, J. C., Schacht, 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. New York: Basic Books, 1993.

Norville, R., Sampson, H. & Weiss, J. (1996). Accurate Interpretations and Brief Psychotherapy Outcome. Psychotherapy Research, 6(1):16-29.

Perry, C. J., Luborsky, L., Silberschatz, G., & Popp, C. An examination of three methods of psychodynamic formulation based on the same videotaped interview. Psychiatry, 1989, 52, 302-322.

Persons, J. B. & Silberschatz, G. Are results of randomized controlled trials useful to psychotherapists? Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1998, 66, 126-135.

Persons, J. B. & Silberschatz, G. How useful for psychotherapists are randomized controlled experiments? Harvard Mental Health Letter, 1999 (July).

Persons, J. B., Curtis, J. T., & Silberschatz, G. Psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral formulations of a single case. Psychotherapy, 1991, 28, 608-617.

Rappoport, Alan. The Patient's Search for Safety: The Organizing Principle in Psychotherapy. Psychotherapy, Fall 1997, 34(3), 250-261.

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.

Rosbrow, T. Significance of the unconscious plan for psychoanalytic theory. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 1993, 10(4), 515-532.

Rosenberg, S., Silberschatz, G., Curtis, J. T., Sampson, H., & Weiss, J. The plan diagnosis method: A new approach to establishing reliability for psychodynamic formulations. American Journal of Psychiatry, 1986, 143, 1454-1456.

Sampson, H. A critique of certain traditional concepts in the psychoanalytic theory of therapy. Bull. Menninger Clinic, May 1976, 40, 255-262.

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. Experience and insight in the resolution of transferences. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 1991, 27(2), 200-207.

Sampson, H. How the patient's sense of danger and safety influence the analytic process. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 1989, 7(1), 115-124.

Sampson, H. The problem of adaptation to reality in psychoanalytic theory. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 1990, 26(4), 677-691.

Sampson, H. The role of "real" experience in psychopathology and treatment. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 1992, 2(4), 509-528.

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., 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, 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.

Silberschatz, G. & Curtis, J. T. Measuring the therapist's impact on the patient's therapeutic progress. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1993, 61, 403-411.

Silberschatz, G. & Curtis, J. T. 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. & Sampson, H. Affects in psychopathology and psychotherapy. In J. D. Safran & L. S. Greenberg (Eds.), Emotion, psychotherapy, and change. New York: Guilford Press, 1991.

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, 949-951.

Silberschatz, G. Psychology's contribution to the future of psychoanalysis: A scientific attitude. In M. Meisels & E. Shapiro (Eds.), Tradition and Innovation in Psychoanalytic Education. N.J.: Erlbaum, 1990.

Silberschatz, G. Testing the analyst. In J. Weiss, H. Sampson, and the Mount Zion Psychotherapy Research Group, The Psychoanalytic Process: Theory, clinical observation, and empirical research, New York: Guilford Press, 1986.

Silberschatz, G. The patient's testing of the therapist: A critical component. The California Psychologist, 1993, 26, 15-28.

Silberschatz, G., & Curtis, J. T. Clinical implications of research on brief dynamic psychotherapy. II. How the therapist helps or hinders therapeutic progress. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 1986, 3, 27-37.

Silberschatz, G., Curtis, J. T., & Nathans, S. Using the patient's plan to assess progress in psychotherapy. Psychotherapy, 1989, 26, 40-46.

Silberschatz, G., Curtis, J. T., Fretter, P. B., & Kelly, T. J. 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. T., Sampson, H., & Weiss, J. La ricerca sul processo di cambiamento in psicoterapia: l'approccio del Gruppo di Ricerca in Psicoterapia di San Francisco. In A. Zabonati, P. Migone, & G. Maschietto (Eds.), La validazione scientifica delle psicoterapie psicoanalitiche (pp. 61-78). Venezia: IPAR , 1994.

Silberschatz, G., Curtis, J. T., Sampson, H., & Weiss, J. Research on the process of change in psychotherapy: The approach of the Mount Zion Psychotherapy Research Group. In L. Beutler & M. Crago (Eds.), Psychotherapy research: An international review of programmatic studies. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 1991.

Silberschatz, G., Fretter, P. B., & Curtis, J. T. How do interpretations influence the process of psychotherapy? Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1986, 54, 646-652.

Silberschatz, G., Sampson, H., and Weiss, J. Seeking gratification versus testing the analyst. In J. Weiss, H. Sampson, and the Mount Zion Psychotherapy Research Group, The Psychoanalytic Process: Theory, clinical observation, and empirical research, New York: Guilford Press, 1986.

Suffridge, D.R. Survivors of child maltreatment: Diagnostic formulation and therapeutic process. Psychotherapy, 1991, 28, 67-75.

Weatherford, S. Unconscious guilt as a cause of sexualized relationships. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 1989, 53(2), 108-114.

Weiss, J. Empirical studies of the psychoanalytic process. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, October, 1993.

Weiss, J. How Psychotherapy Works: Process and Technique. New York: Guilford Press, 1993.

Weiss, J. The analyst's task: To help the patient carry out his plan. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 1994, 30 (2), 236-254.

Weiss, J. The centrality of adaptation. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 1990, 26(4), 660-676.

Weiss, J. The emergence of new themes: A contribution to the psychoanalytic theory of therapy. Int. J. Psa., 1971, 52, 459-467.

Weiss, J. The integration of defenses. Int. J. Psa., 1967, 48, 520-524.

Weiss, J. The nature of the patient's problems and how in psychoanalysis the individual works to solve them. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 1989, 7(1), 105-113.

Weiss, J. The role of interpretation. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 1992, 12(2), 296-313.

Weiss, J. Unconscious mental functioning. Scientific American, March 1990, 103-109.

Weiss, J., Sampson, H., and The Mount Zion Psychotherapy Research Group. The Psychoanalytic Process: Theory, Clinical Observations, and Empirical Research. New York: Guilford Press, 1986.

Zeitlin, D. Control-Mastery theory in couples therapy. Family Therapy, 1991, 18(3), 201-2.