Drew Westen
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American psychologist and political writer and messaging consultant
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Drew Westen is professor in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia; the founder of Westen Strategies, LLC, a strategic messaging consulting firm to nonprofits and political organizations; and a writer. He is also co-founder, with Joel Weinberger, of Implicit Strategies, a market research firm that measures consumers' unconscious responses to advertising and brands.
Drew Westen's Published Works
Published Works
- A multidimensional meta-analysis of psychotherapy for PTSD. (2005) (1717)
- Sex Differences in Jealousy: Evolution, Physiology, and Psychology (1992) (1160)
- The empirical status of empirically supported psychotherapies: assumptions, findings, and reporting in controlled clinical trials. (2004) (1104)
- A multidimensional meta-analysis of treatments for depression, panic, and generalized anxiety disorder: an empirical examination of the status of empirically supported therapies. (2001) (681)
- Childhood sexual and physical abuse in adult patients with borderline personality disorder. (1990) (522)
- Revising and assessing axis II, Part I: developing a clinically and empirically valid assessment method. (1999) (469)
- Neural Bases of Motivated Reasoning: An fMRI Study of Emotional Constraints on Partisan Political Judgment in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election (2006) (463)
- The political brain: The role of emotion in deciding the fate of the nation. (2007) (462)
- Quantifying construct validity: two simple measures. (2003) (453)
- A multidimensional meta-analysis of psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder. (2004) (427)
- Revising and assessing axis II, Part II: toward an empirically based and clinically useful classification of personality disorders. (1999) (402)
- Self and society (1985) (380)
- Social cognition and object relations. (1991) (377)
- Personality profiles in eating disorders: rethinking the distinction between axis I and axis II. (2001) (336)
- Divergences between clinical and research methods for assessing personality disorders: implications for research and the evolution of axis II. (1997) (315)
- Countertransference phenomena and personality pathology in clinical practice: an empirical investigation. (2005) (311)
- When clinical description becomes statistical prediction. (2004) (269)
- Personality diagnoses in adolescence: DSM-IV axis II diagnoses and an empirically derived alternative. (2003) (269)
- Refining personality disorder diagnosis: integrating science and practice. (2004) (269)
- Dimensions of personality pathology: an alternative to the five-factor model. (2004) (250)
- Identity disturbance in borderline personality disorder: an empirical investigation. (2000) (250)
- Emotion dysregulation and negative affect: association with psychiatric symptoms. (2011) (245)
- Refining the construct of narcissistic personality disorder: diagnostic criteria and subtypes. (2008) (244)
- Physical and sexual abuse in adolescent girls with borderline personality disorder. (1990) (235)
- The Scientific Status of Unconscious Processes: Is Freud Really Dead? (1999) (217)
- The Shedler–Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP): Making Personality Diagnosis Clinically Meaningful (2007) (216)
- Object relations and social cognition in borderlines, major depressives, and normals: A Thematic Apperception Test analysis. (1990) (215)
- Limitations of axis II in diagnosing personality pathology in clinical practice. (1998) (213)
- Relationship between attachment patterns and personality pathology in adolescents. (2002) (196)
- Affect Regulation in Borderline Personality Disorder (2006) (193)
- The scientific legacy of Sigmund Freud: Toward a psychodynamically informed psychological science. (1998) (182)
- The borderline diagnosis in adolescents: symptoms and developmental history. (1990) (179)
- A prototype matching approach to diagnosing personality disorders: toward DSM-V. (2000) (175)
- Association between childhood maltreatment and adult emotional dysregulation in a low-income, urban, African American sample: Moderation by oxytocin receptor gene (2011) (165)
- A prototype approach to personality disorder diagnosis. (2006) (153)
- Rethinking therapeutic action (2003) (151)
- Refining the Measurement of Axis II: A Q-Sort Procedure for Assessing Personality Pathology (1998) (148)
- Assessing personality disorders using a systematic clinical interview: evaluation of an alternative to structured interviews. (2003) (146)
- Etiology of Borderline Personality Disorder: Disentangling the Contributions of Intercorrelated Antecedents (2005) (142)
- Clinical assessment of object relations using the TAT. (1991) (141)
- The borderline personality diagnosis in adolescents: gender differences and subtypes. (2005) (139)
- Borderline personality disorder in clinical practice. (2005) (138)
- Clinical assessment of attachment patterns and personality disorder in adolescents and adults. (2006) (138)
- Toward an integrative model of affect regulation: Applications to social-psychological research. (1994) (133)
- Quantifying clinical judgment in the assessment of adolescent psychopathology: Reliability, validity, and factor structure of the Child Behavior Checklist for clinician report. (2004) (133)
- Personality diagnosis with the Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP): integrating clinical and statistical measurement and prediction. (2007) (129)
- Affect regulation and affective experience: individual differences, group differences, and measurement using a Q-sort procedure. (1997) (129)
- Developments in Cognitive Neuroscience (2002) (126)
- Developments in Cognitive Neuroscience (2002) (124)
- Self and Society: Narcissism, Collectivism, and the Development of Morals (1985) (120)
- Personality disorders in DSM-5. (2010) (120)
- Clinical Utility of Five Dimensional Systems for Personality Diagnosis: A “Consumer Preference” Study (2008) (115)
- Quality of depressive experience in borderline personality disorder and major depression: when depression is not just depression (1992) (114)
- Personality subtypes in eating disorders: validation of a classification in a naturalistic sample. (2005) (113)
- Psychoanalytic approaches to personality. (1990) (109)
- Sex Differences in Jealousy: Not Gone, Not Forgotten, and Not Explained by Alternative Hypotheses (1996) (108)
- Prototype diagnosis of psychiatric syndromes (2012) (106)
- Object relations in borderline adolescents. (1990) (105)
- The relations among narcissism, egocentrism, self-concept, and self-esteem: Experimental, clinical, and theoretical considerations. (1990) (101)
- Implicit affect in organizations (2009) (99)
- Towards a revised theory of borderline object relations: contributions of empirical research. (1990) (98)
- An empirically derived taxonomy for personality diagnosis: bridging science and practice in conceptualizing personality. (2012) (96)
- The Cognitive Self and the Psychoanalytic Self: Can We Put Our Selves Together? (1992) (95)
- Identity disturbance in adolescence: Associations with borderline personality disorder (2011) (94)
- Cognitive-behavioral interventions in the psychoanalytic psychotherapy of borderline personality disorders (1991) (86)
- A Multidimensional Meta-Analysis of Psychotherapy for Bulimia Nervosa (2006) (86)
- The psychodynamics of borderline personality disorder: A view from developmental psychopathology (2005) (85)
- Clinical assessment of pathological personality traits. (2006) (85)
- The external validity of controlled clinical trials of psychotherapy for depression and anxiety: a naturalistic study. (2003) (83)
- A clinical-empirical model of personality: life after the Mischelian ice age and the NEO-lithic era. (1995) (80)
- Empirically Supported Complexity (2005) (79)
- Developmental history and object relations in psychiatrically disturbed adolescent girls. (1990) (76)
- Parental bonding and personality pathology assessed by clinician report. (2003) (75)
- Transference patterns in the psychotherapy of personality disorders: empirical investigation (2005) (75)
- Assessing adolescent personality pathology (2005) (75)
- The structure of axis II disorders in adolescents: a cluster- and factor-analytic investigation of DSM-IV categories and criteria. (2005) (73)
- Personality subtypes in adolescents with eating disorders: validation of a classification approach. (2007) (70)
- Object relations in childhood and adolescence: the development of working representations. (1991) (70)
- Object representations in the early memories of sexually abused borderline patients. (1991) (66)
- RATS, We Should Have Used Clinton: Subliminal Priming in Political Campaigns (2008) (64)
- Subtyping Male Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence (2011) (63)
- A Naturalistic Study of Psychotherapy for Bulimia Nervosa, Part 1: Comorbidity and Therapeutic Outcome (2005) (63)
- Object relations in borderlines, depressives, and normals: an examination of human responses on the Rorschach. (1990) (61)
- In praise of clinical judgment: Meehl's forgotten legacy. (2005) (61)
- Disturbances of self and identity in personality disorders. (2003) (60)
- SEX DIFFERENCES IN JEALOUSY: (2009) (59)
- Psychology : mind, brain & culture (1996) (59)
- The Political Brain (2007) (58)
- Improving construct validity: Cronbach, Meehl, and Neurath's ship. (2005) (56)
- Affect regulation and affective experience : Individual differences, group differences, and measurement using a Q-sort procedure (1997) (55)
- EBP ≠ EST: Reply to Crits-Christoph et al. (2005) and Weisz et al. (2005). (2005) (55)
- The Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP) (2012) (54)
- Prototype Personality Diagnosis in Clinical Practice: A Viable Alternative for DSM-V and ICD-11. (2010) (51)
- Transference and information processing (1988) (51)
- Malevolence, Splitting, and Parental Ratings by Borderlines (1992) (51)
- Agreement between clinician and patient ratings of adaptive functioning and developmental history. (2010) (49)
- Assessing affect-tone of relationship paradigms from TAT and interview data. (1990) (49)
- Psychology: Australian and New Zealand Edition (2006) (49)
- 4 PERSONALITY PATHOLOGY IN ADOLESCENCE: A REVIEW (2002) (49)
- The self in borderline personality disorder: A psychodynamic perspective. (1993) (45)
- A Model and a Method for Uncovering the Nomothetic from the Idiographic: An Alternative to the Five-Factor Model? (1996) (45)
- A Naturalistic Study of Psychotherapy for Bulimia Nervosa, Part 2: Therapeutic Interventions in the Community (2005) (44)
- Are "primitive" object relations really preoedipal? (1989) (43)
- Clinical assessment of object relations and social cognition using stories told to the picture arrangement subtest of the WAIS-R. (1993) (43)
- Unconscious thought, feeling, and motivation: The end of a century-long debate. (1998) (41)
- The quality of depression in adolescents with borderline personality disorder. (1993) (40)
- Assessment of Clinical Information: Comparison of the Validity of a Structured Clinical Interview (the SCID) and the Clinical Diagnostic Interview (2015) (40)
- Towards a clinically and empirically sound theory of motivation. (1997) (40)
- The Next Generation of Psychotherapy Research: Reply to Ablon and Marci (2004), Goldfried and Eubanks-Carter (2004), and Haaga (2004). (2004) (36)
- The Language of Psychoanalytic Discourse (2002) (35)
- Object relations in borderline adolescents and adults: developmental differences. (1990) (35)
- The Efficacy of Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder (2006) (35)
- The relationship of adult attachment constructs to object relational patterns of representing self and others. (2005) (34)
- MATERNAL EMPATHY, FAMILY CHAOS, AND THE ETIOLOGY OF BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER (1994) (34)
- Case formulation and personality diagnosis: Two processes or one? (1998) (34)
- Dimensional assessment of self- and interpersonal functioning in adolescents: implications for DSM-5's general definition of personality disorder. (2015) (33)
- The Assessment of Complexity of Representations of People Using TAT and Interview Data (1992) (33)
- Implications of Developments in Cognitive Neuroscience for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (2002) (33)
- A multidimensional meta-analysis of pharmacotherapy for bulimia nervosa: summarizing the range of outcomes in controlled clinical trials. (2002) (33)
- Relationship between clinician assessment and self-assessment of personality disorders using the SWAP-200 and PAI. (2007) (33)
- Assessing Object Relations and Social Cognition in Borderline Personality Disorders from Stories Told to the Picture Arrangement Subtest of the WAIS-R (1992) (31)
- Integrative psychotherapy: Integrating psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral theory and technique. (2000) (30)
- A clinical-empirical model of emotion regulation (2007) (28)
- Validity of prototype diagnosis for mood and anxiety disorders. (2013) (27)
- Simplifying diagnosis using a prototype-matching approach: Implications for the next edition of the DSM. (2002) (27)
- Psychology: Mind, brain, & culture, 2nd ed. (1999) (27)
- Attachment, social cognition, and posttraumatic stress symptoms in a traumatized, urban population: evidence for the mediating role of object relations. (2013) (26)
- Personality Subtypes of Suicidal Adults (2009) (26)
- Manualizing Manual Development (2006) (25)
- Sexuality, Personality, and Eating Disorders (2004) (25)
- Questioning the Coherence of Histrionic Personality Disorder: Borderline and Hysterical Personality Subtypes in Adults and Adolescents (2008) (24)
- A Prototype Approach to Personality Disorder Diagnosis (2013) (24)
- An empirically derived classification of adolescent personality disorders. (2014) (24)
- The superego: a revised developmental model. (1986) (22)
- Personality Subtypes in Adolescent and Adult Children of Alcoholics: A Two-Part Study (2011) (21)
- Countertransference and Personality Pathology: Development and Clinical Application of the Countertransference Questionnaire (2009) (21)
- An empirically derived approach to the classification and diagnosis of mood disorders (2012) (20)
- Is the appendix a useful appendage? An empirical examination of depressive, passive-aggressive (negativistic), sadistic, and self-defeating personality disorders. (2006) (19)
- Psychology : mind, brain and culture / by Drew Westen (1995) (19)
- Personality constellations in patients with a history of childhood sexual abuse. (2005) (19)
- Classification, Diagnosis and Comorbidities of Eating Disorders (2003) (18)
- Under the Axis II Radar: Clinically Relevant Personality Constellations That Escape DSM-IV Diagnosis (2007) (18)
- Dimensions of personality and personality pathology: factor structure of the Shedler-Westen assessment procedure-II (SWAP-II). (2014) (17)
- Personality subtypes in patients with panic disorder. (2009) (17)
- What changes in short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy? (1986) (17)
- Assessing Complexity of Representations of People and Understanding of Social Causality: A Comparison of Natural Science and Clinical Psychology Graduate Students (1991) (16)
- Psychology : brain, behavior, & culture (2001) (15)
- Empirical Support for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Eating Disorders (2009) (14)
- Implications of Research in Cognitive Neuroscience for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (2006) (14)
- DSM-III and DSM-III-R schizotypal symptoms in borderline personality disorder. (1990) (14)
- Personality Subtypes of Adolescents Who Attempt Suicide (2011) (14)
- The relationship between borderline personality disorder and anxiety disorders. (1989) (14)
- Assessing Adolescent Personality Disorders With the Shedler–Westen Assessment Procedure for Adolescents (2013) (13)
- Distinguishing female borderline adolescents from normal and other disturbed female adolescents. (1991) (13)
- Psychosis in borderline patients with depression (1989) (12)
- Psychodynamic Theory and Technique in Relation to Research on Cognition and Emotion: Mutual Implications (2005) (12)
- Conceptual issues and research findings on borderline personality disorder: What every clinician should know (1998) (11)
- Commentary: Implicit and Emotional Processes in Cognitive‐Behavioral Therapy (2006) (10)
- Personality Subtypes in Disruptive Adolescent Males (2009) (10)
- Self and Society: Personality and culture: a synthesis (1985) (10)
- Personalities of adults with traumatic childhood separations. (2011) (9)
- Agreement Among Clinician, Patient, and Independent Interviewer Ratings of Adaptive Functioning (2017) (9)
- Empirically Informed Clinical Interviewing for Personality Disorders (2012) (9)
- Reliability of DSM and empirically derived prototype diagnosis for mood, anxiety and personality disorders. (2018) (9)
- The Scientific Status of Unconscious Processes (9)
- Cultural Materialism: Food for Thought or Bum Steer? [and Comments and Replies] (1984) (8)
- Psychology: Australian and New Zealand, 2nd ed. (2009) (8)
- Borderline Inpatients with Affective Disorder: Preliminary Follow-Up Data (1990) (8)
- Diagnosis and subtypes of adolescent antisocial personality disorder. (2010) (7)
- Response to Skodol Letter (2011) (7)
- Social cognition and social affect in psychoanalysis and cognitive psychology: From regression analysis to analysis of regression. (1992) (7)
- Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure (2017) (6)
- What Happened to Obama? An Opinion Piece (2011) (6)
- The Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness: Motivation, Decision Making, and Consciousness: From Psychodynamics to Subliminal Priming and Emotional Constraint Satisfaction (2007) (6)
- Diagnosing personality disorders. (2001) (5)
- The Search for Objectivity in the Study of Subjectivity Reply to Commentary (2002) (5)
- Clinical Judgment in Science: Reply. (2005) (4)
- Drs. Shedler and Westen Reply (2005) (4)
- Validity and Clinical Utility of DSM and Empirically Derived Prototype Diagnosis for Personality Disorders in Predicting Adaptive Functioning (2019) (3)
- Science and Psychodynamics: From Arguments About Freud to Data (2001) (3)
- Personality, Culture, and Science: Contexts for Understanding the Self (1992) (3)
- Refining a complex diagnostic construct: subtyping Dysthymia with the Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure-II. (2014) (3)
- Personality subtypes in adolescents with panic disorder (2011) (3)
- Validity and clinical utility of DSM and prototype diagnosis for depressive and anxiety spectrum disorders in predicting adaptive functioning (2018) (3)
- "A Multidimensional Meta-Analysis of Psychotherapy for PTSD": Correction. (2006) (3)
- Thematic Apperception Test (2001) (3)
- Official and unofficial data (1988) (3)
- Revision of the Personality Disorder Model for DSM-5 Response (2011) (2)
- Self and Society: Emotion: a missing link between psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral psychology? (1985) (2)
- Personality subtypes in eating disorders: validation Personality subtypes in eating disorders: validation of a classification in a naturalistic sample of a classification in a naturalistic sample (2005) (2)
- Personality Constellations of Adolescents With Histories of Traumatic Parental Separations (2014) (2)
- Dr. Silk and Associates Reply (1991) (1)
- Association Between Attachment Patterns and Personality Disorders (2021) (1)
- Unpacking childhood experiences of abuse: Can clinicians identify their patients’ History of Abuse? (2020) (1)
- Self and Society: Frontmatter (1985) (1)
- Culture on the Ground and in the Brain. (1998) (1)
- Societal structure and dynamics (1985) (0)
- Childhood Abuse in Borderline Disorder: (358292004-011) (2013) (0)
- Comprar Psychology | Robin M. Kowalski, PhD | 9780470087626 | Wiley (2008) (0)
- Self and Society: Personality and sociocultural change (1985) (0)
- Integrating emotions with other disciplines in psychology : anxiety and social perception (2009) (0)
- Self and Society: Breakdown and recovery: paradigmatic processes in personal identity and cultural integration (1985) (0)
- Self and Society: Personality and communitarian collectivism (1985) (0)
- Self and Society: Psychic and sociocultural structure and dynamics (1985) (0)
- Self and Society: The structure and dynamics of personality (1985) (0)
- Self and Society: Personality and individuation (1985) (0)
- Book Review: FREUD SCIENTIFICALLY REAPPRAISED: TESTING THE THEORIES AND THERAPY. By Seymour Fisher and Roger P. Greenberg. New York: John Wiley, 1995, 353 pp., $59.95 (1998) (0)
- Political Party Affiliation Affects fMRI Responses to Emotional Social Stimuli (2009) (0)
- Dr. Westen and Dr. Ludolph Reply (1991) (0)
- Personality and culture: a synthesis (1985) (0)
- Assessing adolescent personality pathology Assessing adolescent personality pathology (2005) (0)
- Self and Society: Personality theory: the three faces of psyche (1985) (0)
- Putting empathy in perspective. (1991) (0)
- Emotional Cognition in the Real World (2007) (0)
- Will the Real Psychoanalysis Please Stand Up ? Five Postulates That Define Contemporary Psychodynamic (1998) (0)
- Three New Essays on Human Nature and Culture@@@Portrait and Story: Dramaturgical Approaches to the Study of Persons.@@@Genealogies of Morals: Nietzsche, Foucault, Donzelot and the Eccentricity of Ethics.@@@Self and Society: Narcissim, Collectivism, and the Development of Morals. (1987) (0)
- Evolving domains. Psychoanalysis in dialogue with science, culture, and technology. 22nd annual spring meeting, New York City, NY, April 10-14, 2002. Panel and paper summaries: Nature and origins of character: (302352005-015) (2002) (0)
- Study guide, Psychology : mind, brain & culture, Drew Westen (1996) (0)
- PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE Sex Differences in Jealousy STUDY 1 : SUBJECTIVE DISTRESS OVER A PARTNER ' S EXTERNAL INVOLVEMENT (2008) (0)
- Self and Society: Social theory in sociology and anthropology (1985) (0)
- Self and Society: The development of personality, narcissism, and moral judgment (1985) (0)
- Empirically Supported Complexity Evidence-Based Practice in Psychotherapy (2005) (0)
- Therapeutic Action: A Guide to Psychoanalytic Therapy (2002) (0)
- Transference patterns in the psychotherapy Transference patterns in the psychotherapy of personality disorders: empirical investigation of personality disorders: empirical investigation (2005) (0)
- Self and Society: The development of collectivism and the culture ideal (1985) (0)
- Review of Action and insight. (1989) (0)
- Self and Society: The psychodynamics of modernization (1985) (0)
- Authors' reply (2006) (0)
- Self and Society: Culture and personality: dying species or vigorous hybrid? (1985) (0)
- Personality and eating disorders (2018) (0)
- Drs. Westen and Shedler Reply (2000) (0)
- On Westen on Cultural Materialism (1985) (0)
- BORDELINE PERSONALITY DIAGNOSIS IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS. AUTHOR'S REPLIES (1991) (0)
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