PEP | Article - The Boston Change Process Study Group: Reflections on a Clinical Theory: Change in Psychotherapy: A Unifying Paradigm. By the Boston Change Process Study Group. New York: W. W. Norton, 2010. 256 pp.

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The Boston Change Process Study Group wrote a series of papers between 1998 and 2008. During this 10-year period, their work evolved from a discussion of non-interpretive mechanisms in psychoanalytic therapy to the presentation of a unifying paradigm, with the ambitious goal of demonstrating how change occurs in psychotherapy. The group members were analysts, infant researchers, and a child psychiatrist/developmental pediatrician. They had been immersed in the study of early development in the stimulating atmosphere of the Boston infant research community, which included T. Berry Brazelton. The method of the Boston Change Process Study Group was to closely observe the interaction of the therapeutic dyad, using observations of mothers and their infants as a model.

The contributing members of the Boston Change Process Study Group were: Nadia Bruschweiler-Stern, Karlen Lyons-Ruth, Alexander C. Morgan, Jeremy P. Nahum, Louis Sander, and Daniel N. Stern. Two

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