The Importance of the Therapeutic Alliance to Psychiatry

Elizabeth Auchincloss, M.D.

Introduction

Elizabeth L. Auchincloss, M.D. is the Vice-Chair for Education, DeWitt Wallace Senior Scholar, and Professor of Clinical Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College.  She is also Senior Associate Director, Training and Supervising Analyst, and Chair of the Diversity Committee at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.  She is a four-time recipient of the Award for Faculty Teaching given by the residents of the Payne Whitney Clinic and was selected three times to be the Victor J. Teichner Visiting Professor by the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychiatry.  More recently, she is the author of the book, The Psychoanalytic Model of the Mind, published by American Psychiatric Publishing.  She is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Terms and Concepts (with Eslee Samberg, M.D.) published jointly by the American Psychoanalytic Association and Yale University Press in 2012.Researcher Prize.

Learning Objectives

1. Describe the history of the concept of the therapeutic alliance
2. Describe studies in which the therapeutic alliance has been shown to predict outcome
3. Describe which therapist interventions can help strengthen the therapeutic alliance

 
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Relevant financial relationship(s) with industry: 

Speaker Elizabeth Auchincloss, M.D.:  Royalties from American Psychaitric Publishing, Inc.

No relevant financial relationship(s) with industry:
Brian Palmer, M.D., Michael Bostwick, M.D., Karen Grothe, Ph.D., Lois Krahn, M.D., Jarrod Leffler, Ph.D., Larissa Loukianova, M.D., Mary Machulda, Ph.D., Patricia Maus, RN, M.S., Jeffrey Staab, M.D., Cosima Swintak, M.D., Kristin Vickers Douglas, Ph.D., Cynthia Harbeck-Weber, Ph.D., Michael Zaccariello, Ph.D., Charlene Nelson

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