The Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM) and the PDM-2: Opportunities to Significantly Affect the Profession

Steven K. Huprich, Ph.D., is Professor and Director of Clinical Training for the clinical psychology Ph.D. program at Wichita State University.  He is the Editor of the Journal of Personality Assessment, Associate Editor for the Journal of Personality Disorders, and has authored and edited six professional books on personality disorders, personality assessment, psychodynamic therapy, and clinical psychology.
Steven K. Huprich, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Wichita State University 1845 Fairmount, Wichita, KS 67260-0034,

Nancy McWilliams, Ph.D., teaches at Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology and practices in Flemington, New Jersey. Author of Psychoanalytic Diagnosis (1994, rev. ed. 2011), Psychoanalytic Case Formulation (1999), and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (2004), and associate editor of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (2006), she is a former president of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association. She is one of three psychotherapists chosen by APA Press (2011) to be videotaped for purposes of training in a comparison and contrast of major psychotherapeutic approaches.

Vittorio Lingiardi, M.D., is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and Full Professor and Director of the Clinical Psychology Specialization Program at the Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University, Rome. He is a member of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR Italy) and of the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP). Dr. Lingiardi, along with Nancy McWilliams and Robert Wallerstein, comprise the Steering and Scientific Committee of the new edition of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM-2; Guilford Press, expected for 2015).

Robert F. Bornstein, Ph.D., is with the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University.

Francesco Gazzillo, Ph.D., is at the Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, Sapienza University, Rome.

Robert M. Gordon, Ph.D., ABPP, is diplomated in Clinical Psychology and in Psychoanalysis, and is in independent practice in Allentown, Pennsylvania.