In today's podcast, we explore background knowledge, experiences, and misconceptions surrounding

psychodynamic therapy and discuss how we define evidence for it with our guest, Dr. Jonathan Shedler.

Welcome to the Carlatt Psychiatry Podcast. This is an episode from the psychotherapy podcast team.

I'm Mark Ruffalo, editor-in-chief of the Carlatt Psychotherapy Report. I'm also instructor of

psychiatry at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine and adjunct instructor of

psychiatry at the Tufts University School of Medicine. And I am Geneva Fleska, a graduate with a degree in neuroscience and cognitive science, and a podcast coordinator at the Tufts University School of Medicine. And I am Geneva Faleska, a graduate with a degree in neuroscience and cognitive science

and a podcast coordinator at the Carla Report.

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Without further ado, let's introduce our guest.

I'm honored today to have with us on the Carlott Psychotherapy Report, Dr. Jonathan Shedler,

the esteemed psychodynamic psychologist, clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California in San Francisco,

co-author of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, co-creator of the Shedler Weston assessment procedure for personality diagnosis and clinical case formulation, and perhaps the most influential figure

in the world of psychoanalysis today. I have said previously that Dr. Shedler is the person

most responsible for saving psychoanalysis as a clinical discipline,

and I don't believe that's going too far. His 2010 paper, the efficacy of psychodynamic

psychotherapy and the American psychologist firmly established psychodynamic psychotherapy as an

evidence-based treatment, and it now stands as one of the most cited

scientific papers in recent memory. I followed Dr. Shedler's work now for a few years. We're both

on the Twitter platform together. I guess we're now calling that X. Long admired his work

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