What Good Psychotherapy Looks Like With Dr. Jonathan Shedler
Transforming Trauma
Brad Kammer
4.4 • 131 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Transforming Trauma, host Emily Ruth welcomes back Dr. Jonathan Shedler, renowned psychologist, author, consultant, researcher, and clinical educator. In their conversation, they are delving deeper into the elements that make up good psychotherapy and the importance of connection between therapist and client. Dr. Shedler and Emily Ruth also explore critical flaws in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), how modern social subcultures provide a disturbing camouflage for disassociation, and the three pillars of an effective therapeutic working alliance.
About Jonathan Shedler:
Jonathan Shedler, PhD, is an American psychologist known internationally as an author, consultant, researcher, and clinical educator. He is best known for his article The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, which won worldwide acclaim for firmly establishing psychoanalytic therapy as an evidence-based treatment.
Dr. Shedler’s research and writing are shaping contemporary views of personality styles and their treatment. He is author of over one hundred scientific and scholarly articles, creator of the Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP) for personality diagnosis and clinical case formulation, and co-author of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM-2 and forthcoming PDM-3). He has more than 25 years of experience teaching and supervising psychologists, psychiatrists, and psychoanalysts.
Dr. Shedler lectures internationally, leads workshops for professional audiences, consults to U.S. and international government agencies, and provides expert clinical case consultation to mental health professionals worldwide. He is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and a faculty member at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Transforming Trauma podcast. Transforming Trauma is presented by the Complex |
| 0:10.3 | Trauma Training Center. I'm your host, Emily Ruth, and I'm so glad you've joined us today. |
| 0:15.8 | As a mental health professional, you care for others, and the Complex Trauma Training Center is committed |
| 0:22.3 | to caring for you. We are thrilled to introduce our space program 2025, an inner development |
| 0:29.3 | program of support and self-discovery for therapists on the personal, interpersonal, and trans-personal levels. |
| 0:36.8 | Therapists often focus so much on learning skills to |
| 0:39.8 | use with clients that we don't leave space for ourselves. This interactive experiential program |
| 0:45.8 | offers an immersive learning environment designed to cultivate space for ourselves in our |
| 0:50.6 | professional role. As Victor Frankel taught, between stimulus and response, there is a space. |
| 0:57.0 | In that space is our power to choose our response. |
| 1:00.0 | In our response lies our growth and our freedom. |
| 1:04.0 | Starting February through December 2025, we will host six online sessions |
| 1:09.0 | designed to cultivate space for self-care and self-discovery. We will be exploring the obstacles that we will host six online sessions designed to cultivate space for self-care and self-discovery. |
| 1:13.2 | We will be exploring the obstacles that stand in your way of being the most present, heartful, |
| 1:18.3 | and effective therapist possible. |
| 1:20.7 | Together we will explore in a safe, inclusive, and supportive environment with the intention |
| 1:25.7 | to create greater effectiveness and resilience |
| 1:28.4 | in our professional lives. Please visit Complex Trauma Training Center.com and secure your spot |
| 1:34.4 | in the space program. It's time to care for you. And now for our interview. Dr. Jonathan Shedler is a psychologist known internationally as an author, consultant, researcher, and clinical educator. |
| 1:51.5 | Dr. Shedler's research and writings are shaping contemporary views of personality styles and their treatment. |
| 1:57.3 | He is author of over 100 scientific and scholarly articles, |
| 2:02.2 | creator of the Shedler-Westin assessment procedure for personality diagnosis and clinical case formulation, and co-author of |
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