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PDM Task Force. (2006). Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual. Silver Spring, MD: Alliance of Psychoanalytic Organizations
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Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual
(PDM)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Outline of the PDM Classification System
PSYCHODYNAMIC DIAGNOSTIC TASK FORCE
Sponsoring Organizations and Steering Committee
American Psychoanalytic Association
Jon Meyer, MD
President
Ruth S. Fischer, MD
(for Newell Fischer, MD
Past President)
International Psychoanalytical Association
Professor Daniel Widlcher
Past President
American Psychological Association
Division of Psychoanalysis (39)
Jaine L. Darwin, PsyD
Past President
American Academy of Psychoanalysis
Ronald Turco, MD
Past President
National Membership Committee on
Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work
Barbara Berger, PhD, BCD
Past President
Stuart G. Shanker, DPhil
York University
Toronto, Ontario
Stanley I. Greenspan, MD (Chair)
George Washington University Medical School
Washington, DC
PDM Task Force
Stanley I. Greenspan, MD, Chair
Nancy McWilliams, PhD, Associate Chair
Robert S. Wallerstein, MD, Associate Chair
Adult Mental Health Disorders
Coordinating Committee
Robert S. Wallerstein, MD, (Chair)
Otto Kernberg, MD
Nancy McWilliams, PhD
Herbert Schlesinger, PhD
Jonathan Shedler, PhD
Drew Westen, PhD
Adult Personality Disorders
Nancy McWilliams, PhD (Chair)
Eve Caligor, MD
Abby Herzig, PsyD
Otto Kernberg, MD
Jonathan Shedler, PhD
Drew Westen, PhD
Adult Symptom Patterns
Malkah Notman, MD
Hector Ferrari, MD
Paul Fink, MD
Abby Herzig, PsyD
Marvin Hurvich, PhD, ABPP
Judy Ann Kaplan, LCSW, BCD
Thomas Kenemore, PhD, LCSW
Edward J. Khantzian, MD
Martha Kirkpatrick, MD
Jodi Licht, PsyD
David G. Phillips, DSW
Stanley I. Greenspan, MD
Consultants to the Symptom Patterns Work Group:
Rachel Barbanel-Fried, PsyD
Edward Dewey, PsyD
Nadine Khoury, PsyD
Rachel Miller, PsyD
Sarah Sarkis, PsyD
Profile of Mental Functioning for Adults and Children
Paul Fink, MD
Bernard Friedberg, MD
Stanley I. Greenspan, MD
Joseph Palombo, MA
Stuart G. Shanker, DPhil
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Disorders
Joseph Palombo, MA (Co-Chair)
Bernard Friedberg, MD (Co- Chair)
Alex Burland, MD (deceased)
A my Eldridge, PhD
Theodore Fallon, Jr., MD, MPH
Ruth Fischer, MD
Stanley I. Greenspan, MD
Leon Hoffman, MD
Thomas K. Kenemore, PhD,
Paulina Kernberg, MD (deceased)
Stuart G. Shanker, DPhil
Serena Wieder, PhD
Conceptual and Research Foundations
Barbara Berger, PhD, BCD
Sidney J. Blatt, PhD
Reiner Dahlbender, MD, PhD
Peter Fonagy, PhD, FBA
Stanley I. Greenspan, MD
Judy Ann Kaplan, LCSW, BCD
Bertram Karon, PhD
Nancy McWilliams, PhD
David G. Phillips, DSW
Daniel B. Rosenfeld, MA, LCSW BCD
Stuart G. Shanker, DPhil
Jonathan Shedler, PhD
Howard Shevrin, PhD
Robert S. Wallerstein, MD
Joel Weinberger, PhD
Drew Westen, PhD
Daniel Widlcher, PhD
Consultants
Arnold Cooper, MD
Sherwood Faigen, MA
R. Dennis Shelby, PhD
George Stricker, PhD
PDM Task Force
Barbara Berger, PhD, BCD
Dean of Admissions
Institute for Clinical Social Work
Chicago, Illinois
Sidney J. Blatt, PhD
Professor, Psychiatry and Psychology
Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
Alex Burland, MD (deceased)
Training/Supervising
Psychoanalyst
The Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Eve Caligor, MD
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
New York, New York
Reiner Dahlbender, MD, PhD
Medical Director, MEDICLIN
Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy,
Member of the Medical University of Hannover/University of Ulm, Hannover/Ulm, Germany
Amy Eldridge, PhD
Dean
Institute for Clinical Social Work Chicago, Illinois
Theodore Fallon, Jr., MD, MPH Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Hctor Ferrari, MD
Professor
Department of Mental Health University of Buenos Aires Medical School
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Paul Fink, MD
Professor of Psychiatry Temple University School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Ruth Fischer, MD
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Peter Fonagy, PhD, FBA
Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis
Sub-Department of Clinical Health Psychology
University College
London, England
Bernard Friedberg, MD
President
Foundation of the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia
Voorhees, New Jersey
Stanley I. Greenspan, MD
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics George Washington University Medical School
Bethesda, Maryland
Abby Herzig, PsyD
George Washington University Psychoanalytic Candidate
NYU Psychoanalytic Institute at NYU Medical Center
New York, New York
Leon Hoffman, MD
Director
Pacella Parent Child Center
New York Psychoanalytic Institute and Society
New York, New York
Marvin Hurvich, PhD, ABPP Professor of Psychology Long
Island University Brooklyn, New York
Judy Ann Kaplan, LCSW, BCD
President
National Membership Committee on Psychoanalysis in Clinical
Social Work
Practicing Psychoanalyst
New York University School of Social Work
New York, New York
Thomas K. Kenemore, PhD, LCSW
Institute for Clinical Social Work
Chicago, Illinois
Otto Kernberg, MD
Professor of Psychiatry
Weill Medical College
Cornell University
Westchester, New York
Paulina Kernberg, MD (deceased)
Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
New York Hospital
Cornell Medical Center
Westchester Division
Westchester, New York
Edward J. Khantzian, MD
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry