Eric Plakun
American psychiatrist
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Eric Plakun's Degrees
- Doctorate Medicine Columbia University
- Doctorate Psychology William James College
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Eric M. Plakun is an American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, researcher and forensic psychiatrist. He is the current medical director/CEO at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Plakun's primary interests include the mental health advocacy, full implementation of the mental health parity law, access-to-care issues, and reducing health disparities; the value of and evidence base for psychosocial treatments and the diagnosis, treatment, longitudinal course and outcome of patients with borderline personality disorder and treatment resistant disorders. Plakun has been widely published and quoted in the media on psychotherapy and psychiatry, including in The New York Times and The Globe and Mail. He has appeared in the media to discuss his psychiatric work on WAMC, the Albany, New York, affiliate of NPR. and on CBS 60 Minutes. His psychiatric research has been widely cited.
Eric Plakun's Published Works
Published Works
- 14-year follow-up of borderline and schizotypal personality disorders. (1985) (112)
- Transference-focused Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Clinical Guide (2017) (56)
- Narcissistic and Borderline Personality Disorders in a Sample of Treatment Refractory Patients (2009) (47)
- The Y Model: An Integrated, Evidence-Based Approach to Teaching Psychotherapy Competencies (2009) (45)
- Prediction of Outcome in Borderline Personality Disorder (1991) (43)
- Restoring Mentalizing in Attachment Relationships: Treating Trauma with Plain Old Therapy (2014) (40)
- Narcissistic personality disorder. A validity study and comparison to borderline personality disorder. (1989) (37)
- Improvement and Recovery From Suicidal and Self-Destructive Phenomena in Treatment-Refractory Disorders (2009) (30)
- A view from Riggs--treatment resistance and patient authority: I. A psychodynamic perspective on treatment resistance. (2006) (25)
- Finding psychodynamic psychiatry's lost generation. (2006) (24)
- Treatment resistance and psychodynamic psychiatry: concepts psychiatry needs from psychoanalysis. (2012) (21)
- Making the alliance and taking the transference in work with suicidal patients. (2001) (21)
- Treatment‐Refractory Mood Disorders: A Psychodynamic Perspective (2003) (20)
- Psychotherapy for suicidal patients with borderline personality disorder: an expert consensus review of common factors across five therapies (2014) (19)
- Obstacles to early career psychiatrists practicing psychotherapy. (2014) (17)
- Distinguishing narcissistic and borderline personality disorders using DSM-III criteria. (1987) (14)
- Principles in the psychotherapy of self-destructive borderline patients. (1994) (13)
- Psychiatry in Tibetan Buddhism: madness and its cure seen through the lens of religious and national history. (2008) (13)
- Enactment and the Treatment of Abuse Survivors (1998) (12)
- Teaching psychodynamic psychotherapy with the Y model. (2013) (12)
- A view from Riggs: treatment resistance and patient authority-XI. An alliance based intervention for suicide. (2009) (11)
- Psychodynamic Psychiatry, the Biopsychosocial Model, and the Difficult Patient. (2018) (11)
- New perspectives on narcissism (1990) (11)
- Sexual misconduct and enactment. (1999) (11)
- Psychotherapy and Psychosocial Treatment: Recent Advances and Future Directions. (2015) (10)
- Important Medical Decisions: Using Brief Motivational Interviewing to Enhance Patients’ Autonomous Decision-Making (2013) (10)
- Enactment and the treatment of abuse survivors. (1998) (10)
- Psychotherapy in the Post-COVID-19 Era. (2020) (9)
- A view from Riggs: treatment resistance and patient authority--X: from acting out to enactment in treatment resistant disorders. (2009) (8)
- The significance of borderline and schizotypal overlap. (1987) (7)
- Psychodynamic psychotherapy for PTSD. (2000) (7)
- Treatment of personality disorders in an era of limited resources. (1996) (7)
- Pentazocine Abuse and Problems of Withdrawal (1975) (6)
- Clinical Necessity Guidelines for Psychotherapy, Insurance Medical Necessity and Utilization Review Protocols, and Mental Health Parity. (2018) (6)
- The Mental Health Crisis in America: Recognizing Problems; Working Toward Solutions: Part 1. Defining the Crisis. (2020) (5)
- Improving Access to Psychotherapy: Implications of Wit Versus United Behavioral Health. (2021) (5)
- Access to psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in the US (2020) (4)
- Treatment of personality disorders in an era of limited resources. (1996) (4)
- Psychodynamic systems of residential treatment: another view from Riggs. (2015) (4)
- Psychotherapy With Suicidal Patients Part 1: Expert Consensus Recommendations (2018) (3)
- Psychotherapy Research and the NIMH: An Either/Or or Both/And Research Agenda? (2017) (3)
- Clinical and Insurance Perspectives on Intermediate Levels of Care in Psychiatry. (2018) (3)
- Treatment of borderline personality disorder. (1998) (3)
- A View From Riggs: Treatment Resistance and Patient Authority—Introduction to Paper VI: “Working With Family Resistance to Treatment” by Ave Schwartz (2007) (3)
- Jihad, McWorld and enactment in the postmodern mental health world. (2002) (3)
- Psychotherapy in Psychiatry: Fighting Alternative Facts. (2019) (2)
- Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder: A Family Guide for Healing and Change (2012) (2)
- The Mental Health Crisis in America: Recognizing Problems; Working Toward Solutions: Part 2. Offering Hope Through Engagement. (2020) (2)
- Psychotherapy, Parity, and Ethical Utilization Management. (2017) (2)
- Psychotherapy With Suicidal Patients Part 2: An Alliance Based Intervention for Suicide (2019) (2)
- Providing a Routine Medical Necessity Letter to Improve Access to Care for Our Patients. (2021) (2)
- One Hundred Years of Austen Riggs (2019) (1)
- S13.Assessment of personality disorders. (2000) (1)
- A Psychodynamic Perspective on Treatment-Refractory Mood Disorders (2002) (1)
- Gene-Environment Interaction in Youth Depression: Differential Susceptibility? (2016) (1)
- Characteristics of borderline personality disorder admissions to private psychiatric hospitals. (1986) (1)
- Therapeutic Community Then and Now (2019) (1)
- A View From Riggs: Treatment Resistance and Patient Authority – Introduction to Paper VI: Ave Schwartz: >Working with Family Resistance to Treatment< (2007) (1)
- A "Trans-Dyadic" Perspective on the Goldwater Rule. (2017) (1)
- Medications, Genes, Environmental Stress, and Pursuit of Recovery (2022) (1)
- Correcting Psychiatry’s False Assumptions and Implementing Parity (2015) (1)
- A view from Riggs: treatment resistance and patient authority-introduction to paper IV. (2007) (1)
- Book Review: New Essays on Narcissism. (1993) (1)
- What Psychotherapists Should Understand About DNA Methylation. (2019) (1)
- Two New Psychotherapy Studies: Back to the Future? (2018) (1)
- The Still-Evolving Story of Managed Care: Crisis Stabilization Versus Real Recovery (2023) (0)
- Introduction Underlying Causes and Implications (2009) (0)
- Bias Toward Psychodynamic Therapy: Framing the Problem and Working Toward a Solution. (2017) (0)
- The Impact of Patient Suicide on Clinicians (2016) (0)
- Afterword: Beyond Diagnosis to Mourning and the Meaning of Symptoms. (2022) (0)
- Making Psychotherapy Great Again? (2017) (0)
- Finding Psychodynamic Psychiatry's Lost Generation (2006). (2022) (0)
- Treatment-Resistant Mood Disorders: A Psychodynamic Approach (2014) (0)
- Dynamic Therapy With Suicidal and Self-Destructive Borderline Patients Alliance Based Therapy Can Be a Powerful Intervention (2009) (0)
- Afterword to "Working on the Frontlines From Home: Residents' Experiences With Telepsychiatry During the COVID-19 Pandemic". (2021) (0)
- Psychotherapy and Advocacy: Four Freedoms as Fundamental Patient Rights (2019) (0)
- A view from Riggs: treatment resistance and patient authority - introduction to paper III: "What is psychodynamic psychopharmacology? An approach to pharmacologic treatment resistance", by David Mintz and Barri Belnap. (2006) (0)
- A view from Riggs: treatment resistance and patient authority--introduction to paper VIII: "Standards of care and patient autonomy". (2008) (0)
- PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PSYCHOSOCIAL TREATMENT: FUTURE DIRECTIONS AND RECENT ADVANCES (2016) (0)
- Shared Elements Across Therapies for Suicidal Patients With BPD (2016) (0)
- Do Patients With Treatment-resistant Disorders Recover? (2022) (0)
- My First Lesson in Countertransference (2016) (0)
- Review Robert S. Wallerstein and Leo Goldberger (Eds.): Ideas and Identities: The Life and Work of Erik Erikson (1999) (0)
- Borderline Personality Disorder and Treatment Resistance: Rediscovering the biopsychosocial model: Ia033 (2016) (0)
- Canary in the Coal Mine Fights Back: What Access to ‘Intermediate Levels of Care’ Says About Managed Care (2019) (0)
- Managed Care Discovers The Talking Cure (2020) (0)
- Another Step Toward Implementing Mental Health Parity. (2021) (0)
- Psychodynamic Therapy: An Overview for Trainees and Their Teachers: Part 1-The Basics. (2023) (0)
- A Psychodynamic Approach to Treatment Resistance (2018) (0)
- A Verdict Overturned: Are We at Our Wit's End? (2022) (0)
- Politics in the Consulting Room. (2017) (0)
- A view from Riggs: treatment resistance and patient authority-introduction to paper IX: integrative psychodynamic treatment of psychotic disorders. (2008) (0)
- COVID-19 and Psychotherapy: Addressing Blocked Mourning (2020) (0)
- A view from Riggs: treatment resistance and patient authority--introduction to paper VII. (2008) (0)
- How Foster Children Pay the Price for Psychiatry's False Assumptions (2015) (0)
- Series epilogue: a view from Riggs: treatment resistance and patient authority. (2009) (0)
- Finding Psychodynamic Psychiatry's Lost Generation. (2022) (0)
- The Man Who Could See With His Heart (2021) (0)
- The Mental Health Crisis in America: Recognizing Problems; Working Toward Solutions: Part 3. Access to Care. (2020) (0)
- An Introduction From the New Psychotherapy Columnist. (2016) (0)
- A view from Riggs: introduction to paper II "Treatment resistance and patient authority". (2006) (0)
- Afterword to “When the Supervisor Needs a Supervisor: A Case-based Guide for Developing Psychotherapy Supervisors” (2023) (0)
- Psychotherapy in the Age of the Brain (2006) (0)
- Psychotherapy in Dark Times: The Role of Moral Injury (2020) (0)
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