When the Context is in the Room: Extending the Relational Paradigm

Paul L. Wachtel, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor of Psychology in the doctoral program in clinical psychology at City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is also on the faculty of the NYU postdoctoral program in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis and the Mitchell Center for Relational Studies. A founder and past president of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI), he is the author, most recently, of Cyclical Psychodynamics and the Contextual Self: The Inner World, the Intimate World, and the World of Culture and Society, published by Routledge in 2014.
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