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D-Index
35
Citations
5576
World Ranking
9824
National Ranking
5197

Paul L. Wachtel publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Paul L. Wachtel sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 215 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Paul L. Wachtel D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Paul L. Wachtel sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Paul L. Wachtel is affiliated with the City College of New York in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with significant contributions to clinical psychology and general psychological studies. Their scholarly output includes investigations into psychotherapy techniques, academic and historical perspectives within psychology, as well as counseling, therapy, and family dynamics.

Wachtel's recent publications span several prominent venues. Notable papers include:

  • Integrative Couple Therapy, 2023, PsycTHERAPY Dataset
  • "Take a sad song and make it better": What makes an interpretation growth facilitating for the patient?, 2020, Psychotherapy
  • The Scope of Psychotherapy Integration: Introduction to a Special Issue, 2020, Clinical Social Work Journal
  • More Human than Otherwise: Selected Papers, 2021, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
  • Representations, Schemas, and Living-in-the-World, 2020, Psychoanalytic Perspectives

The scientist has collaborated frequently with other researchers, particularly with Liat Leibovich, Aviv Nof, and Sigal Zilcha-Mano, each with multiple collaborations. Other coauthors include Judith P. Siegel and Judith C. Baer.

Wachtel's work addresses topics such as psychotherapy techniques and applications, with 16 publications related to this area. They have also explored academic and historical perspectives in psychology in 10 papers, along with counseling, therapy, and family dynamics in 8 studies. Additional topics covered include transactional analysis in psychotherapy, interpreting and communication in healthcare, patient-provider communication in healthcare, and traumatic brain injury research.

The primary publication venues for their research include the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and PsycTHERAPY Dataset, each featuring two of their publications, as well as Psychotherapy, Clinical Social Work Journal, and Psychoanalytic Perspectives.

Best Publications

  • Psychoanalysis and behavior therapy : toward an integration

    Paul L. Wachtel

  • Psychoanalysis and Behavior Therapy

    Paul L. Wachtel

  • Relational Theory and the Practice of Psychotherapy

    Paul L. Wachtel

  • Psychodynamics, behavior therapy, and the implacable experimenter: an inquiry into the consistency of personality.

    Paul L. Wachtel

  • Psychoanalysis, Behavior Therapy, and the Relational World

    Paul L. Wachtel

  • Conceptions of broad and narrow attention.

    Paul L. Wachtel

  • Family Dynamics in Individual Psychotherapy: A Guide to Clinical Strategies

    Ellen F. Wachtel;Paul L. Wachtel

  • History of psychotherapy: A century of change.

    Donald K. Freedheim;Herbert J. Freudenberger;Jane W. Kessler;Stanley B. Messer

  • Psychoanalysis, Behavior Therapy, and the Relational World

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  • The Poverty of Affluence: A Psychological Portrait of the American Way of Life

    Paul L. Wachtel

  • Therapeutic Communication: Principles and Effective Practice

    Paul L. Wachtel

  • Therapeutic Communication: Knowing What to Say When

    Paul L. Wachtel;Ellen F. Wachtel

  • Transference, schema, and assimilation: The relevance of Piaget to the psychoanalytic theory of transference.

    Paul L. Wachtel

  • Resistance, psychodynamic and behavioral approaches

    Paul L. Wachtel

  • Anxiety, Attention, and Coping with Threat.

    Paul L. Wachtel

  • Action and insight

    Paul L. Wachtel

  • Investigation and its discontents: Some constraints on progress in psychological research

    Paul L. Wachtel

  • BEYOND "ESTs" Problematic Assumptions in the Pursuit of Evidence-Based Practice

    Paul L. Wachtel

  • Cyclical processes in personality and psychopathology

    Paul L. Wachtel

  • From eclecticism to synthesis: Toward a more seamless psychotherapeutic integration.

    Paul L. Wachtel

  • Evaluating negative process: a comparison of working alliance, interpersonal behavior, and narrative coherency among three psychotherapy outcome conditions.

    Lisa Wallner Samstag;J Christopher Muran;Paul L Wachtel;Arietta Slade

  • The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess: 1887--1904.

    Paul L. Wachtel

Frequent Co-Authors

Marvin R. Goldfried
Marvin R. Goldfried Stony Brook University
Stanley B. Messer
Stanley B. Messer Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Sidney J. Blatt
Sidney J. Blatt Yale University
Hans H. Strupp
Hans H. Strupp Vanderbilt University
Sigal Zilcha-Mano
Sigal Zilcha-Mano University of Haifa
J. Christopher Muran
J. Christopher Muran Adelphi University

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