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Overview

Drew Westen is affiliated with Emory University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Psychology, with a focus on Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, General Health Professions, and Philosophy as notable subfields of their work.

Their scholarly output covers topics such as Personality Disorders and Psychopathology, Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications, Attachment and Relationship Dynamics, Child Abuse and Trauma, Migration, Health and Trauma, Child and Adolescent Health, and Mental Health and Psychiatry.

Recent publications include:

  • Association Between Attachment Patterns and Personality Disorders (2021) published in The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
  • Unpacking childhood experiences of abuse: Can clinicians identify their patients' History of Abuse? (2020) published in Journal of Trauma & Dissociation

These journals represent some of the venues where Drew Westen has contributed to the academic discourse. The most frequent publication venues identified are The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease and Journal of Trauma & Dissociation.

Collaborations are evident with several co-authors, notably:

  • Ora Nakash
  • Maayan Nagar
  • Liat Razon
  • Amy R. Kegley

This range of collaborators aligns with the interdisciplinary nature of Westen's research topics and subfields. Their work addresses issues such as the development and manifestations of personality disorders, methodologies and outcomes in psychotherapy, as well as examining patterns of attachment and the effects of childhood trauma.

Best Publications

  • A Multidimensional Meta-Analysis of Psychotherapy for PTSD.

    Rebekah Bradley;Jamelle Greene;Eric Russ;Lissa Dutra

  • Sex Differences in Jealousy: Evolution, Physiology, and Psychology:

    David M. Buss;Randy J. Larsen;Drew Westen;Jennifer Semmelroth

  • The empirical status of empirically supported psychotherapies: assumptions, findings, and reporting in controlled clinical trials.

    Drew Westen;Catherine M. Novotny;Heather Thompson-Brenner

  • A multidimensional meta-analysis of treatments for depression, panic, and generalized anxiety disorder: An empirical examination of the status of empirically supported therapies.

    Drew Westen;Kate Morrison

  • Childhood sexual and physical abuse in adult patients with borderline personality disorder

    Susan N. Ogata;Kenneth R. Silk;Sonya Goodrich;Naomi E. Lohr

  • A multidimensional meta-analysis of psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Kamryn T. Eddy;Lissa Dutra;Rebekah Bradley;Drew Westen

  • Revising and assessing axis II, Part I: developing a clinically and empirically valid assessment method.

    Drew Westen;Jonathan Shedler

  • Neural Bases of Motivated Reasoning: An fMRI Study of Emotional Constraints on Partisan Political Judgment in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election

    Drew Westen;Pavel S. Blagov;Keith Harenski;Clint Kilts

  • Quantifying construct validity: two simple measures.

    Drew Westen;Robert Rosenthal

  • Psychology: Mind, brain, & culture.

    Drew Westen

  • Revising and Assessing Axis II, Part II: Toward an Empirically Based and Clinically Useful Classification of Personality Disorders

    Drew Westen;Jonathan Shedler

  • The political brain: The role of emotion in deciding the fate of the nation.

    Drew Westen

  • The scientific legacy of Sigmund Freud: Toward a psychodynamically informed psychological science.

    Drew Westen

  • Social cognition and object relations.

    Drew Westen

  • Countertransference Phenomena and Personality Pathology in Clinical Practice: An Empirical Investigation

    Ephi Betan;Amy Kegley Heim;Carolyn Zittel Conklin;Drew Westen

  • Personality Profiles in Eating Disorders: Rethinking the Distinction Between Axis I and Axis II

    Drew Westen;Jennifer Harnden-Fischer

  • Identity disturbance in borderline personality disorder: an empirical investigation.

    Tess Wilkinson-Ryan;Drew Westen

  • Divergences between clinical and research methods for assessing personality disorders : Implications for research and the evolution of axis II

    Drew Westen

  • Personality Diagnoses in Adolescence: DSM-IV Axis II Diagnoses and an Empirically Derived Alternative

    Drew Westen;Jonathan Shedler;Christine Durrett;Samantha Glass

  • Emotion Dysregulation and Negative Affect: Association With Psychiatric Symptoms

    Bekh Bradley;Jared A. DeFife;Clifford Guarnaccia;Justine Phifer

  • Self and Society: The development of collectivism and the culture ideal

    Drew Westen

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth R. Silk
Kenneth R. Silk University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Heather Thompson-Brenner
Heather Thompson-Brenner Boston University
Glen O. Gabbard
Glen O. Gabbard Baylor College of Medicine
Kamryn T. Eddy
Kamryn T. Eddy Harvard University
Mark J. Hilsenroth
Mark J. Hilsenroth Adelphi University
Peter Fonagy
Peter Fonagy University College London
Otto F. Kernberg
Otto F. Kernberg Cornell University
Aaron T. Beck
Aaron T. Beck University of Pennsylvania
Joel T. Nigg
Joel T. Nigg Oregon Health & Science University
Elisabeth B. Binder
Elisabeth B. Binder Max Planck Society

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