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This book is an updated edition of Psychodynamic Formulation published in 2013 by Wiley-Blackwell and written by Deborah L. Cabaniss, Sabrina Cherry, Carolyn J. Douglas, Ruth L. Graver, and Anna R. Schwartz. This new edition features several key updates while retaining the strengths of the first edition.
The preface of the updated text is clear about some of the guiding principles that were utilized in the updating and expansion of the first edition, namely, the societal events in the United States since 2020, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the events of racial injustice in several high-profile cases of police misconduct toward Black Americans, which ignited social reckoning around the issue of systemic and structural racism. The preface notes in particular that this expanded approach seeks to confront some of the blind spots in psychodynamic theorizing and formulation and works to redress these in this newly expanded edition. Examples of changes made to address these aims include new chapters on values and the effects of culture and society, with the incorporation of Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems model, and increased efforts toward diversity and inclusion by the use of nonbinary pronouns throughout the text. In addition, in some sections of this text, such as those on attachment theory, there is a recognition that the original research in this area was predominantly White and Western, acknowledging a degree of bias that needs to be examined in this and other psychodynamic theories often used to gird case formulations. The text also acknowledges the inherent heteronormative bias of early ego psychological models.
The discussion of bias is woven throughout the book to help clinicians and educators. This is done to encourage reflection by the clinician as they approach a formulation of a case in a broad attempt to move away from White, heteronormative, and ableist trends in psychodynamic theory, to encourage a wider scope of theory and data in the spirit of c