Advances in Psychodynamic Psychiatry

Csar A. Alfonso, MD, Editor of Psychodynamic Psychiatry, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University in New York, Adjunct Professor at the University of Indonesia in Jakarta, and Visiting Professor at the National University of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur. He also teaches at New York Medical College and Northwell Health. He serves as Chair of the Psychotherapy Section of the World Psychiatric Association. His recent work includes the study of the psychodynamic determinants of treatment adherence, biopsychosocial and transcultural aspects of suicide, the clinical care of persons with low vision and medical multimorbidities, and the design and implementation of psychotherapy training programs.

Richard C. Friedman, MD, Editor-in-Chief of Psychodynamic Psychiatry, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, Lecturer in Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Faculty Member at the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. His book on male homosexuality was the first to integrate neuroscience, sexology, developmental psychology, and psychoanalytic theory and practice. He began a collaboration with Jennifer I. Downey in 1991 that led to many publications and a book on sexual orientation and psychoanalysis. Drs. Friedman and Downey served as Co-Chairs of the Human Sexuality Committee of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. Dr. Friedman is a recipient of the Mary S. Sigourney Award from the Sigourney Trust. He practices in New York City.

Jennifer I. Downey, MD, Editor of Psychodynamic Psychiatry, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians in New York. She is also on the faculty of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Dr. Downey was a sex researcher before becoming a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and, with Richard C. Friedman, wrote about sexual fantasy, sexual orientation, and sexual minorities. Her current interests include women's health, sexuality in people with psychiatric disorders, individuals with gender dysphoria and nonbinary gender identities, and teaching psychodynamic psychotherapy skills in psychiatric training programs.