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An award is given each year at the national meetings of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry to the author(s) of the best article published in Psychodynamic Psychiatry during the preceding year. This year a cash prize of $2,500 was awarded to Nathan Thoma, Ph.D., Brian Pilecki, Ph.D., and Dean McKay, Ph.D., for their article entitled: “Contemporary Cognitive Behavior Therapy: A Review of Theory, History, and Evidence” (Psychodynamic Psychiatry, Vol. 43, No. 3, 423-463). The editors of Psychodynamic Psychiatry congratulate Drs. Thoma, Pilecki, and McKay for this outstanding work.
Nathan Thoma, Ph.D., attended the University of California at Santa Cruz, majoring in Theater Arts with a Film emphasis. He went on to work in the film industry in New York City for about 10 years, working in the lighting department in film production as an electrician, best boy, and gaffer. Working primarily on rap music videos and TV commercials, Dr. Thoma also wrote a novel that remains unpublished. He earned his doctorate in clinical psychology from Fordham University.
After completing an internship at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, Dr. Thoma went on to do a postdoctoral fellowship in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy at the Cornell Cognitive Therapy Clinic. He joined the full-time faculty at Weill Cornell where he researched psychotherapeutic methods of treating chronic depression. Dr. Thoma remains on the adjunct faculty at Weill Cornell where he teaches CBT psychiatry residents.
Dr. Thoma's first-author article in the American Journal of Psychiatry, which quantitatively examined the quality of the evidence base for CBT, was named by the editors as one of the ten most important articles in the journal that year. Recently, he published an edited book focusing on bringing together diverse methods of working with emotional processing in CBT, including psychodynamic and humanistic/experiential methods.