Paul L. Wachtel

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Paul L. Wachtel
NationalityAmerican
EducationColumbia University (A.B.), Yale University (Ph.D.)
Occupation(s)Distinguished Professor of Psychology, City College of New York
Known forPsychoanalysis; Psychotherapy Integration; Cyclical Psychodynamics

Paul L. Wachtel is Distinguished Professor of Psychology in the Ph.D. program in clinical psychology at the City College of New York. He earned his undergraduate degree at Columbia University and his doctorate in clinical psychology at Yale University. [1] [2]

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He is widely recognized for his contributions to psychotherapy integration, psychoanalysis, and personality theory. [3] [4] [5] His 1977 book, Psychoanalysis and Behavior Therapy: Toward an Integration, challenged traditional divisions among psychotherapy schools and helped initiate a movement toward integrative approaches. [6]

Wachtel was a co-founder and past president of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI). [7] He has lectured internationally and received numerous awards including the 2010 Hans H. Strupp Award for Psychoanalytic Writing, Teaching, and Research; the 2012 Distinguished Psychologist Award from APA Division 29 (Psychotherapy); the 2013 Scholarship and Research Award from APA Division 39 (Psychoanalysis); and the inaugural Sidney J. Blatt Award for Outstanding Contributions to Psychotherapy in 2018. [8]

Research and theoretical contributions

Wachtel is best known for his theory of cyclical psychodynamics, [9] emphasizing the powerful role of vicious circles in the lives of people and societies. This approach aims to illuminate how the way we see and experience the world leads us to act in ways that are likely to evoke responses from others that perpetuate that very way of seeing and experiencing the world. [10]

His work also explores the psychological effects of materialism and affluence on individual well-being and social cohesion, as well as race relations in America. [11] [12]

Selected books

References

  1. ↑ "Paul Wachtel". City College of New York. Retrieved 2025-05-07.
  2. ↑ "Paul Wachtel - CUNY Graduate Center" . Retrieved 2025-05-07.
  3. ↑ Handbook of Psychotherapy Integration. Oxford University Press. June 11, 2019. ISBN   978-0190690465.
  4. ↑ History of Psychotherapy: Continuity and Change (2nd ed.). American Psychological Association. July 15, 2010. ISBN   978-1433807626.
  5. ↑ Arkowitz, Hal (1992), Freedheim, Donald K.; Freudenberger, Herbert J.; Kessler, Jane W.; Messer, Stanley B. (eds.), "Integrative theories of therapy." , History of psychotherapy: A century of change., Washington: American Psychological Association, pp. 261–303, doi:10.1037/10110-007, ISBN   978-1-55798-149-3 , retrieved 2025-05-12
  6. ↑ Wachtel, Paul L. (1977). Psychoanalysis and Behavior Therapy: Toward an Integration. Basic Books. ISBN   9780465065622.
  7. ↑ "SEPI Advisory Board Members". Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI). Retrieved 2025-05-07.
  8. ↑ "Paul L. Wachtel profile". City College of New York. Retrieved 2025-05-07.
  9. ↑ "Attachment, Anxiety, and the Disavowed Self: Insights from Dr. Paul Wachtel's Integrative Psychotherapy". Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast. Retrieved 2025-05-25.
  10. ↑ Wachtel, Paul L. (2014). Cyclical Psychodynamics and the Contextual Self: The Inner World, the Intimate World, and the World of Culture and Society. Routledge. ISBN   9780415713955.
  11. ↑ Wachtel, Paul L. (1983). The Poverty of Affluence: A Psychological Portrait of the American Way of Life. Free Press. ISBN   9781632460219.
  12. ↑ Wachtel, Paul L. (1999). Race in the Mind of America: Breaking the Vicious Circle Between Blacks and Whites. Routledge. ISBN   9781138011540.
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